Proud to announce Flowers Not Bombs, the 2nd in a series of benefit comps supporting Palestinian-led mutual aid groups in Gaza.
Arrives June 25th on Beacon Sound (Portland) w/ a limited run of cassettes & will be launched on Radio alHara
(Bethlehem).
beaconsound.bandcamp.com/album/flower...
beaconsound.bandcamp.com
Flowers Not Bombs, by V/A
14 track album
![A block of black text on white background that reads: So, why do artists and music companies use it despite pretty obvious ethical defects? Is this an individual lapse in morality? Or the result of structural forces? Hint: It is almost always the latter w/ capitalism!
Platforms and organizations exploit the structural logic of the attention economy. Because attention operates as a zero-sum field, in order to gain a foothold, one naturally has to leap over others. With this structural incentive built in, it’s a simple hop skip and jump to building systems designed to exploit it for profit.
A key problem is that these zero-sum incentives are fundamentally short-term in orientation. They’re geared toward maximizing immediate individual advantage and capturing ever more attention-market share which, in practice, usually also means greater economic market share. Music manager Sam Alavi captures the bind that artists face well: “I don’t know anybody not utilizing [clipping] who’s actually competitive in the marketplace.”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:on7cetsajjc7trcxtz3eo52t/bafkreid7w3y7hlo4j64rmx7zq63mcmk7yfgwov57q2prtjd2j53ke7gwx4)
