“Indie band Vulfpeck hatched a scheme to earn a big payout from Spotify. But they’d have to be clever; the music streaming service pays artists less than a penny a play.

So, here’s what Vulfpeck did. The band uploaded a 10-song album called “Sleepify” and asked their fans to stream the album on repeat while they slept, hoping to multiply the royalty rate exponentially.

There was even some incentive. The band was going to use the money to pay for a free concert tour and go to the cities that streamed the album the most.”* The Young Turks hosts Cenk Uygur and Ana Kasparian break it down.

*Read more here from Ed Payne / CNN:
http://www.cnn.com/2014/05/08/showbiz/vulfpeck-spotify-album/