Speaking as a musician here, I align with the decentralized approach personally, and we've just uploaded our best album so far as CC-BY, using the gracious offer of the funkwhale guys to join their libre audio effort under https://open.audio/channels/wergiftfresch_music/ There's other ways for us to get paid if you insist on it. I'm sure we'll find a way. And if you don't want to pay us, well, just enjoy some positive music :)