• penguinA
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    15 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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      15 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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        25 days ago

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

        • ikt
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          15 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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            45 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

            • ikt
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              15 days ago

              yes and they’re all wrong, from the linux losers who pirate and then rarely if ever buy music but virtue signal like they buy music on the daily to the bandcampers who have the music discovery capabilities of limewire and have to spend significantly more time finding music to listen to

              wrong about how much spotify pays out because they don’t know the calculations behind it

              they complain about low payouts while simultaneously using spotify free/ad supported which is bottom tier in payouts to artists, there’s even posts here linking to ways to ad block on spotify free so instead of artists getting a tiny bit they get nothing? and they’re preaching to me ???

              they’re wrong about timelines, record stores and software support

              what a pain i can think for myself 😮‍💨

              the only one i’ll give credit to is qobuz but fuck me are they vegan cunts about it, nyeh im using qobuz because i’m better than spotify users nyeh

              i am not most people, as you saw i listen to a shitload of music, some i like, some i don’t, some im ambivalent about, i support them all the same