Comment on "Sponsored recommendations": I pay for Spotify Premium, and yet somehow I'm still the product?

• loom_in_essence@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I’m advocating using Bandcamp where the artist actually gets paid. Spotify is piracy, and I’m discouraging that.

  Go to bandcamp and buy the actual album.

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  • BURN@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Yeah, that’s not happening. I can’t afford to pay thousands of dollars a month for music. I’m going to continue using Spotify because at the end of the day it’s not my responsibility to determine how much the artists get paid. There’s a bunch of problems I care about, this isn’t one of them.

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    • loom_in_essence@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Well at least you’re honest about not caring about the artists.

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      • BURN@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        I generally buy merch from the small bands I like, and the rest are multimillionaires already.

        While I listen to a wide variety of music, it tends to be popular music from a wide range of times where they’ve already made a lot from it.

        But also, yes, there’s a level of convenience I’m not willing to give up. When an artist pulls their music from Spotify, I tend to just not listen to them, through no fault of their own, but it’s where I listen to everything else.

        I’m trying YouTube music out since it’s theoretically a bit better and I already pay for YouTube premium.

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