Well yes and no. I could listen to maybe 100 to 200 streams a day, there is no way that I would have ever in my life played that many tunes on vinyl or even compact disc. Music is more accessible and also more throwaway. It mirrors journalism. People used to get paid for everything they wrote that was read by the…

So lets say Geoff Barrow has a third of the writing credits for Portishead tunes which means that Portishead pre-tax make something like £10000 a year from streaming. To make that much you would have to sell something like 30000 discs, minimum when you consider everything else that would be taken - manufacturing,…