I wanna listen to a particular song by an artist who has recently turned pretty nazi. As I generally use Spotify I now refuse to listen to his music in there, esp as it generates earnings. I kinda wanna pirate the music somehow…I’m not gonna as I’m not gonna down a song or two and then store it on my phone like it’s the year 2000. But short story is this me justifying piracy to myself.
Honestly, after seeing billionaires buy the US gov and then learning that Spotify is owned by a billionaire and artists are terribly compensated, I have been planning to once again fly the pirate flag. I want to pay the artists, but fuck the current options unless there is a different way idk about.
Might be a good idea to pirate and then contact the artists about setting up donation channels.
Publishers are obsolete.
Bandcamp is decent. If you wait for Bandcamp Fridays, all of your money goes to the artist.
I moved to Qobuz for that reason. Much better payout for the artists.
Don’t forget that they fund the military complex.
Daniel Ek? More like Daniel Ick