return2ozma to TechnologyEnglish · 15 days agoThe best Spotify alternatives to ease your consciencewww.engadget.comexternal-linkmessage-square67linkfedilinkarrow-up1159arrow-down112
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minus-squareshamelesslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up42arrow-down4·15 days ago🏴☠️🏴☠️🏴☠️ My conscience has never been more free
minus-squarehemmeslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up13arrow-down1·15 days agoYeah, but are the artists getting paid?
minus-squareFlashMobOfOnelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up32arrow-down5·15 days agoThe artists weren’t getting paid when you were using Spotify. The shareholders were. If you want artists to get paid, you have to buy direct or support them indirectly via merch/tickets/buying streams, etc.
minus-squaremarkkolinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·15 days agoThe ones I really like I will still buy something from. The others I don’t listen to enough for them to even make $1 from streaming anyway.
minus-squareBrilliantantTurd4361@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·15 days agoI use the money to go to concerts and buy merch!
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My conscience has never been more free
Yeah, but are the artists getting paid?
The artists weren’t getting paid when you were using Spotify. The shareholders were.
If you want artists to get paid, you have to buy direct or support them indirectly via merch/tickets/buying streams, etc.
Yeah I do, that’s what I’m saying
Gotcha. Thank you for clarifying.
The ones I really like I will still buy something from. The others I don’t listen to enough for them to even make $1 from streaming anyway.
I use the money to go to concerts and buy merch!