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Spotify made £56m profit, but has decided not to pay smaller artists like me. We need you to make some noise | Damon Krukowski (www.theguardian.com)

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 9 months ago (14 children)

I don't know what to do honestly. I'm fully aware of the situation. Artists deserve better then the shit they're always getting, I'm not disagreeing. But here's the thing, buying music is nice and all, but one: Bandcamp is going to shit. And two, I just can't afford it.

I'm poor and I listen to a lot of things. Buying all that isn't possible for me. Right now, I'm using Deezer, because they offered 3 months for free. And you know what? Just the 10 bucks a month that I'm saving is making a huge difference in my life.

Not to mention that discovering music without streaming services is quite hard. I left Spotify a long time ago, when the home page started recommending me more Podcasts then music. I tried a lot of things and I came to the conclusion that I hate all music streaming platform but they're still, by far, the best way for me to listen to and discover music.

If I love an album, I'll still buy if I can afford it (which I often can't).

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (13 children)

I just can't afford it.

I'm poor and I listen to a lot of things. Buying all that isn't possible for me.

So basically: you can't afford the volume of product you want to consume at a price that's sustainable for artists, but want the product anyway and you see that as some unsolvable dilemma? Have I got that right?

Look, it sucks that you're in that financial situation. Not here to downplay that struggle. I've lived like that and it fuckin sucks.

But maybe the answer is to value the effort of musicians and either pay them for their work or consume less?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

“Have you tried not being poor? No? How about forgoing a creature comfort to spite a big company in an ineffectual boycott?”

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