Pigeon Spins TRANSGALACTICA, and More!

TRANSGALACTICA - MARGINAL MUSIC

The song is about the fact that music can be listened to today for free, so listeners do not buy records, and consequently ambitious musicians have to make a living from something else (teaching, mixing, playing at weddings).

In the apocalyptic middle part, they threaten that if you listen to trashy music during your lifetime, you will listen to it for eternity (we have our pseudo-scientific theory for this, which we will share someday).

Meanwhile, the intro and stanzas are maintained in a meditative and persuasive mood typical of their music, while the bridge is progressive metal in its catastrophic vein.

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INTERVIEW WITH TRANSGALACTICA

𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐝𝐨𝐞𝐬 𝐢𝐭 𝐦𝐞𝐚𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐦𝐚𝐫𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐜𝐨𝐬𝐭𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐨 𝐦𝐮𝐬𝐢𝐜 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐝𝐫𝐨𝐩𝐩𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐳𝐞𝐫𝐨?

We pay various subscriptions every month - Internet, Netflix, Spotify, etc. - and from the moment we consume so much music, information, movies, books, etc. that these fixed costs have paid off, we listen, read and watch for free until the end of the month. This makes us unwilling to pay extra for anything. And this in turn results in marginalisation of good music, because ambitious artists have nothing to live on. At the same time, the technical possibilities for making music are simply incredible - if Bach, Prokofiev or Stravinsky were alive today, music lovers would be in constant ecstasy.

𝐒𝐨 𝐢𝐭 𝐢𝐬 𝐛𝐚𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐦𝐚𝐫𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐜𝐨𝐬𝐭𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐜𝐮𝐥𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐚𝐥 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐬𝐮𝐦𝐩𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐟𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐧 𝐭𝐨

𝐳𝐞𝐫𝐨?

For some artists it’s disastrous, but the quality of life of the society as a whole is growing much more than earnings. This is one of the many reasons why the the claim often heard from the left, namely that in „modern capitalism” the rich get richer and the rest get poorer, is complete rubbish.

𝐃𝐨 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐩𝐚𝐲 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐦𝐮𝐬𝐢𝐜 𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐯𝐞 𝐟𝐢𝐱𝐞𝐝 𝐜𝐨𝐬𝐭𝐬?

Hardly ever.

𝐒𝐨 𝐰𝐞 𝐜𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝 𝐜𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐡𝐲𝐩𝐨𝐜𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐞𝐬?

You could, but we would counter that with Schopenhauer: does the signpost have to go to

the town?

𝐈𝐧 𝐰𝐡𝐢𝐜𝐡 𝐠𝐮𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝 𝐰𝐞 𝐥𝐨𝐨𝐤 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐢𝐟 𝐰𝐞 𝐰𝐚𝐧𝐭 𝐭𝐨 𝐬𝐮𝐩𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐟𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐲?

We don’t accept cash, it’s better to listen to our music on Spotify or watch our videos on

YouTube.

𝐖𝐡𝐲 𝐝𝐨 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐤 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐰𝐞 𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐨𝐰 𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐬𝐡𝐚𝐩𝐞 𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐩𝐥𝐚𝐲𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐬?

It has always been like that and in this respect Pinker’s claim that there is an improvement

in all areas of modern life, unfortunately is probably false. For example, it is largely decided

by Live Nation who plays where and for how much.

𝐈𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐨𝐧𝐠 𝐃𝐢𝐬𝐜𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐁𝐥𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐬 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐩𝐫𝐚𝐢𝐬𝐞 𝐜𝐨𝐫𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐞𝐥𝐥 𝐮𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐩𝐫𝐚𝐲

𝐭𝐨 (𝐨𝐫 𝐟𝐨𝐫?) 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐢𝐫 𝐛𝐨𝐬𝐬𝐞𝐬. 𝐃𝐨𝐧’𝐭 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐬𝐞𝐞 𝐚 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐝𝐢𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞?

Live Nation is a monopolist, and in this area economic liberalism unequivocally supports

state intervention.

𝐇𝐨𝐰 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐰𝐞 𝐬𝐮𝐩𝐩𝐨𝐬𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐞 𝐰𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐞𝐥𝐬 𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐠?

We’ll explain it another time in some discreet way so that Professor Pinker wouldn’t find

out, because it’s a rather fanciful and not very scientific concept.