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Did Your Spotify Wrapped Place You In Burlington, Berkeley, or Cambridge? You May Be Gay (www.them.us)

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

10 a month to rip unlimited 320 mp3s of anything they have on the service. Seems like a pretty good "excuse" to use it for me.

Torrenting music is bullshit, soulseek is much better but still has massive gaps. Unless you are a part of a good private tracker then the Spotify price is a fucking bargain for all the files you could have......

Also you bitch about them not giving over revenue or whatever but then torrent your music and don't buy any....

[+] [email protected] -15 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Maybe you misunderstand when I say torrenting music is bullshit, what I mean is that unless you are on a private tracker or only want mainstream shit then you won't find much torrenting. It is a bullshit method of music piracy for anything outside mainstream when using public trackers.

I don't even try and make out like I don't use all the methods I list, you want to pirate music and I point out that for not a lot of money you can actively pirate what you like from them and then still support the more niche or local interests you have with the like of bandcamp.

I also try and give back to the pirate music community in the form of adding everything I rip to my soulseek shares so lots of other people can access and share it. That is what piracy should be about, sharing that love.

You sound like the kind of person whose average share ratio on a torrent is way below 1.