Why are some things paywalled or otherwise restricted? I think sometimes artists or creators overestimate the value of their works. I know some digital books are sold by the author at a "pick your price" sort of value (and maybe you can go back and pay more if you liked the book and originally paid a small amount for it). This is understandable in the sense that artwork or creative works don't have a set commodity price, so to speak. Like how gasoline/petrol has a set price which mainly only varies by country or how a digital thing (not art) has a set price worldwide. I think there was some "Palcomix VIP" MLP images, and they weren't that good IIRC. Those were paywalled. Some probably sometimes artists make users pay for it not because they think it actually has that value, but because they know someone will buy it (perhaps grudgingly). In YouTube, there's a Pavement album called Slanted and 3nchanted. There was two videos which have the full album as one video; those were both deleted (DMCA), so all that's in YT is inconvenient playlists of like 14 videos each. I feel like this is another case of overvaluation. First time listing to that album: felt like it sucked. Here's it as one MP3 (torrent infohash in the folder, 83 MB): https://ipfs.hypha.coop/ipfs/QmYZNjzvmRE6LQzES9FeFhLQRpzArHf2yuVMfuGsoSfLCU
So how good or bad music is is a largely subjective thing. I know at least one person who would think that "Giddy Up" voice sounds too high pitched: thought that way about one or more FiW tracks.
