• ikt
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      19 days ago

      Because you’re still listening to their music ? Do you buy the merch of thousands of producers who make ambient music? Do I need to have the ambient track hit me in a way that all the others don’t before they are worthy of being paid?

      • @Cypher@aussie.zone
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        149 days ago

        Because you’re still listening to their music ?

        Why would anyone download and listen to music they don’t like…?

          • @Cypher@aussie.zone
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            38 days ago

            Yeah that doesn’t look anything like my playlists.

            I typically find new music through recommendations from friends, through other media (games, tv), youtube or radio.

            • penguinA
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              58 days ago

              They’re either a troll or stupid, imagine going shopping and paying for everything you looked at or touched.

              Acting like Spotify is good for artists at all is just insane

        • ikt
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          18 days ago

          I duno, how do you guys find new music to listen to?

          Sometimes I’ll just put a playlist on with 1000 tracks in it, maybe a couple I like, most are ok, some of them i skip, in my world they all get paid, in your world only a tiny tiny fraction of them do

          • penguinA
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            18 days ago

            The same way anybody did before Spotify? Listen to something, if you like it then buy it, if you don’t then don’t.

            • ikt
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              18 days ago

              just how rich do you think i am? you think i can afford to go through 10’s of thousands of back catalogs trying to find the music im listening to to buy?

              god damn boomers

              • penguinA
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                28 days ago

                How much have you spent paying Spotify to own absolutely nothing?

                • ikt
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                  18 days ago

                  you can see my listening stats here https://www.last.fm/user/ikt123

                  Spotify is the only subscription I have and I find it immense value supporting artists and discovering new music

                  ty for asking :)

                  • penguinA
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                    48 days ago

                    Doesn’t answer the question.

                    You can justify paying an evil corp however you want, all of the people you are arguing with here are just telling you there are better ways to support artists and discover music

      • @Ibuthyr@lemmy.wtf
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        There used to be plenty of music stores where you could listen to the music before you bought it. They all died because of Spotify. Good job supporting an industry that killed physical media, pushes AI “music” to the masses and enables Nazi podcasters. Nice fucking Job.

        Also, Go to Bandcamp. You can listen to all the music there. Then you can decide to buy the music and in return you get to download the FLAC files. Most artists even let you decide how much you want to pay. You come off as someone who’s never taken a step out into the world and just gobbles everything up that is spoonfed to you.

        • ikt
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          38 days ago

          There used to be plenty of music stores where you could listen to the music before you bought it. They all died because of Spotify.

          Incorrect, the answer we were after is Napster

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        What an absolutely batshit insane take.

        No, you shouldn’t be paid for making something nobody wants. Same reason I think everyone who works in AI should have all their money taken away.

        • ikt
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          how did you to come across as a fuckstick and somehow not read what i said