As someone who's been reading Angry Metal Guy for more than seven years, I hated the decision to use the AI-generated images in this post, too. But don't let that get in the way of the main idea: buy albums on Bandcamp if you can afford it, use Apple Music or Tidal otherwise.
It is probably worth something. Maybe not that price, but some price. It is infamous enough to have some brand perception itself. Might not be positive, but it does have name recognition.
I love his writing too! I read this post a few days ago and really liked it, so I started going through his older posts. It's no coincidence that his writing is good—he's actively working to improve it: https://evanhahn.com/economist-style-guide-book-takeaways/.
I recently re-read this article and can confirm that it's excellent—not just this specific page, but all the other sections under "Garbage Collection" as well.
Just to be clear, I have no affiliation with levels.fyi, so I have no idea why they decided to post on Reddit rather than their blog. I just thought it was a interesting post to share.
Thanks for posting this—it's super interesting! I was just curious why the author of the Reddit post didn't publish it on their own blog, since it's definitely worth preserving there.
