Comment on Temu: UK artist's anger at finding work on site without permission

• fakeman_pretendname@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Just a few small questions, out of interest - would you buy art if it was significantly cheaper, or free? Or would it just be so low on your priority list that it would never be important enough?

  If it was very cheap, or free, would you take “whatever was on offer”, or would you still have very particular tastes in what you liked?

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  • LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    It’s too low on the priority list. Rent, bills, food etc. all come first.

    I only buy e.g. video games that are exceptionally enjoyable and exceptionally niche or an album on bandcamp of an artist who’s work I particularly enjoy with exceptionally few plays where 1 sale might make a difference, and even then I usually limit any such spend in total to a max of £20 at most, and it’s something I would only spend once a month at most, normally rarer.

    As for like, drawings/paintings, I intrinsically see them as having almost zero value and cannot see myself ever paying for one, I would sooner invest in a printer and print something off Google images for a poster than anything else.

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