I've been a guitarist for 15 years, and I still can't decide if music streaming services have been good for the art or not. The average payout per stream is around $0.004, which means a band needs over a million plays a month just to make minimum wage. Sure, the exposure is amazing for indie artists, but is that really a sustainable career path, or are we all just working for pennies while the platforms profit? I sometimes wonder if buying albums again would actually give better returns to the musicians.