Without getting into too much detail for younger readers that never question the premise that things are like they always were only a bit different, things are most assuredly not like they always were. In this instance, what goes in your ears and how it gets there has changed drastically in the last couple of decades. Surprise not surprise, it’s for the worse in every significant way.

Briefly, in the 1990’s the recording industry as it had been known for decades was dying. Yes, learned conspiracy theorists know that “They” controlled it: Aleister Crowley on the cover of “Sgt. Pepper”, The Grateful Dead and LSD, grunge promoted as if it was good music, gangsta rap, the rise of Puff Daddy, Jim Morrison/Rush Limbaugh and the rest of the Laurel Canyon gang, the list goes on and on.

Beyond the artists, “listening” was in reality a fairly small universe. There were a few recording companies and small number of indy labels. Even those weren’t pure, as we came to realize about Miles Copeland Jr., Frontier Booking International, and IRS Records. There were independent terrestrial radio stations scattered across the land, no networks until the Telecommunications Act of 1996 (thank you, Bill). You listened to the radio in your car and maybe a bit at home. If you really liked what you heard, you went to the record store and bought the LP or cassette.

But it all began to suck so bad that They could no longer shove it down people’s throats. Prince complained he was getting ripped off by the record companies, getting only a small fraction of the money he was making for them. Well, kinda. You see, one act like Prince or Michael Jackson or Madonna had to support the next ten or twenty acts on the label that were all losing money. It was unsustainable.

It had to be sustained, of course, for purposes of social engineering. But you can’t just give it away, that’s too obvious. Limp Bizkit at 99% off makes people think too much about how valuable an artist Fred Durst really is in the first place. What to do? Enter Napster.

The scheme was brilliant. In the spirit of rock and roll, people were going to “stick it to The Man”. Or was that really to whom it was getting stuck? Napster started the sequence that reshaped… everything.

Let’s take a look at the model that absolutely predominates today: people subscribe to a streaming service and listen to music and podcasts through it on their smartphone. Do you already see the enormous difference? “They” know exactly what you’re listening to, and exactly when you listen to it. Worse, “They” now control the platform, and have the power to de-platform as and when desired. (History may include incidents of records being pulled from store shelves, but I certainly could not tell you about such an instance.) Worse, “Their” algos are shaping on an individual level what goes into your ears at all times. None of this power existed before.

Now let’s put some meat on those bones.

If you know something about the history of podcasting, you may think of former MTV VJ Adam Curry as “The Podfather”. True, but the organization that has come to dominate podcasting is iHeartMedia. As a minor sideshow in all this, with the hiring of Adam and the other VJs, MTV went from showing music videos to melting people’s intellects right out of their heads. I documented who was responsible for that in:

The new CEO of NPR is an obvious spook, but not obvious at all is that the CEO before last, Jarl Mohn, was a secret Nazi billionaire (not a metaphor) (conspiracies.win 4/19/2024)

As long as that post was, I said that Jarl hired the VJs but I didn’t mention who hired Jarl himself. It was Robert Pittman (media executive). Do you know what Bob is doing now? He’s the Chairman and CEO of iHeart. (I’d tell Adam Curry all this because he has no idea and I think he’d like to know, but my emails to him have been… tampered with.)

As I mentioned, though, this transformation all began with Napster. If you’re pretty old and have a good memory, you may recall the name Shawn Fanning. Another name has been lost to the popular conscious, which is the way They hide Themselves. Wiki remembers, though:

Napster was founded by Shawn Fanning and Sean Parker.

Say it ain’t so. Another Parker? For anyone familiar with my numerous previous posts, the name stands out like the red flag that it is. For those unfamiliar, just consider it as alarming as seeing the last name “Crowley-Rothschild” or something. You can read his obvious bullshit backstory for a laugh, but I’ll relate one personal anecdote.

Back in 2015 or so, I didn’t know any of the stuff I’m relating now or even who Sean Parker was. He had been a decade out of the spotlight by then but I happened to catch him in short video of some sort of NYT panel discussion. After about ten seconds of looking at him and hearing him talk, I thought, “Jesus, this guy is a clearly a spook. Didn’t anyone else ever pick up on that in all these years?” Nope. Not then and not yet.

So Napster was the primitive beginning and you can read the wiki for the details on how Sean was the low-profile money guy that made it all go. Now, as mentioned, all the cool kids listen on Spotify. Do you want to guess the name of the low-profile money guy that made it all go? Don’t let me spoil the surprise but you’ll find it in the wiki.

Here’s another fun one—not directly related to the recording industry—but have you ever heard of the cultural rat poison known as Facebook? Of course! The internal monologues of all the conspiracy theorists are saying “Zuckerberg” and “Winkelvoss twins” right now. If they’re advanced, then “DARPA LifeLog” is rattling around in there too. Okay, but do you know the name of the low-profile money guy that made it all go? The answer is once again in the wiki.

Before we get to the bonuses, I have to interject one thing: in the conspir-o-sphere, people lose their skulls over the “startling revelation” that J.D. Vance worked with Peter Thiel for a while back in the day. How does that compare with what we’re learning here? I just shake my head a lot these days.

The first bonus requires a preface. In many earlier posts on various Parkers, I have referenced that they are a family of generational Satanists up to no good for centuries. We add to their nefarious activities here, but the link to the Satanist part comes from the information related by a member of one of those families:

Jay Parker | Satanic Ritual Abuse, Entity Invocation, & The Power of Consciousness (The Higherside Chats 12/9/2017)

Hmm, “entity invocation”? Wouldn’t it be weird if we found such a thing in the material we covered in this post? I refer you to this interview, starting about 13:45:

True Scary Story Talk with Edwin Covarrubias - The Paranormal Podcast 853 (Jim Harold 10/15/2024)

For background, this is a very popular, mainstream podcast about the paranormal, nothing to do with conspiracy of any type. If you don’t want to watch the video, the interviewee—a fellow paranormal podcaster—relates a story he personally finds disturbing even to talk about, where on two separate occasions a novelty sign in his studio flickered when he said the word “demon”. You can see another version of the sign behind him. The sign is the logo of and was sent to him by (you got it) Spotify. Please, someone say this is mere coincidence.

Second bonus: If you’re a careful reader and a critical thinker, you should have noticed I didn’t do the usual genealogy work on Sean Parker to tie him to the Parkers in question. I have something else for this one that I personally find more convincing.

Take a look at the profile photo of Sean Parker used on his wiki page. Take particular note of his hair color: a medium-dark reddish-brown. It’s actually pretty distinctive, isn’t it? Now take a look at the photo used in this other article:

Newtown Father Looks Beyond Investigator's Report (WBUR 11/26/2013)

Normies think he’s a father who happens to laugh after the murder of his child. Conspiracists think he’s a douchebag crisis actor They grabbed off the streets. If you’re like me, you now know it goes deeper than any of that.