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Michael Kovacs

michaelkovacs98@bookwyrm.social

Joined 1 year, 10 months ago

maybe one of these years I'll hit my reading goal

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2025 Reading Goal

28% complete! Michael Kovacs has read 7 of 25 books.

Liz Pelly: Mood Machine (Hardcover, english language, 2025, Atria/One Signal Publishers)

An unsparing investigation into Spotify’s origins and influence on music, weaving unprecedented reporting with incisive …

this book is really making me reconsider my music streaming habits. I’ve converted to Bandcamp as a way to buy tracks for DJing that directly supports the artists and gives me a high quality DRM-free file, but it’s convincing me more with every page that maybe I should move more of my day to day listening habits to the music I own on Bandcamp instead of Apple Music

Liz Pelly: Mood Machine (Hardcover, english language, 2025, Atria/One Signal Publishers)

An unsparing investigation into Spotify’s origins and influence on music, weaving unprecedented reporting with incisive …

Lopatin asked a question that has stuck with me: ‘If your art practice is so ingrained in the brutal reality that Spotify has outlined for all of us, then what is the music that you’re not making? What does the music you’re not making sound like?’

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Liz Pelly: Mood Machine (Hardcover, english language, 2025, Atria/One Signal Publishers)

An unsparing investigation into Spotify’s origins and influence on music, weaving unprecedented reporting with incisive …

how did I not put two and two together?

spotify. ad spots. they were advertising tech bros in search of a format to sell ads against.

they ad spot-ified our music listening experience.