Paying spotify to punish artists and pay industry bodies who in turn funnel money to rightoid hate groups is worse than starving artists.

Let me know how suing people for downloading music on Limewire works out for you

Also, most artists get fuck all from Spotify or any of the streamers

There's more music released every minute that can be listened to in a lifetime, this is what happens when supply outstrips demand

Fuck it, real fans steal the music and turn up to gigs.

That's cool and all but not every artist does gigs and most people don't go to them, so there needs to be something for the other 99% of people, which conveniently, is called Spotify or Qobuz