Comment on Spotify’s 3rd price hike in 2.5 years hints at potential new normal
Steve@communick.news 2 days agoWhy do your feelings about how others pay for things matter to anyone?
Why does it even matter to you?
Why are you taking personal offense that I said I didn’t understand the behaviour of others? This is a petty hill to die on.
Look, people waste money on plenty of things, myself included. It just feels like being at the mercy of a company to listen to music is a poor choice.
Judgmental attitudes ar an accepted cancer of online discourse. And I try to point it out sometimes.
bootstrap@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 days ago
You could argue it matters because spotify has impacted the music industry negatively as a whole. Why would I want people giving their money to a company like that to make the problem worse?
Regardless of whether I personally use the service or not, other people funding it contributes to the downfall of something I like just for a bit of convenience.
I wouldnt make the same argument for every other streaming service because they all have different levels of ethics they abide by but spotify… no good ethics I can see.
Steve@communick.news 1 day ago
Streaming isn’t the problem. The lables screwing over the artists on their streaming cut is the problem. Stop supporting the lables.
bootstrap@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
Thats correct, streaming is not the problem. Streaming is just a technology. The companies are the problem.
Record companies dont walk in to spotify HQ and say “give me this much for this artist”. Spotify has a very specific payment model that fucks over small artists.
There are also many labels made by artists that are great and really support their artists so your point doesnt really work.
None of this is even touching on how spotify fills its curated playlists with slop so it doesnt have to pay as much royalties or how the only way it can make more money and appease shareholders is by constantly squeezing the consumer and charging more like this article. They have nothing innovating to offer to justify their price hikes.
I love streaming, I think it is incredibly convenient and effective for listening to music. I do not love companies that take an amazing technology and exploit it to destroy an industry that is already struggling in the name of profit.
Support your favourite artists directly or switch to other less scummy streaming services is my opinion. Spotify is destined to fail anyway or at least mutate into a “top 40” only platform with how many artists are leaving.