I’ve never understood why anybody used Spotify in the first place. Music is everywhere. No need to opt in to these kinds of shenanigans to hear the stuff.
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It’s the ubiquity of streaming, the endless/mindless streaming that appeals I guess.
I agree with you but since my wife got us Deezer I have to admit that it’s super handy.
But I keep on buying records and crazy experimental stuff on bandcamp. It’s precious to me.
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Pure and simple: Convenience and ubiquity. For the price of one CD per month I got access to almost all the music I could dream of. When I was broke, it was the only way for me to get access to new music. Now it’s habit. I’ve used it since like 2011.
I will say, the value proposition Spotify offers has grown significantly less appealing recently. Constant price increases, licensing issues, and a lot of music that I have discovered in the past couple years just isn’t there.
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“Fair” is still a word that stands for a lower value than “appropiate”, so …
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I would say boycott using spotify and never promote your work in a way that leads to spotify, but if you are already paying for an uploading service there isn’t really a great reason to put in extra effort to make sure they don’t upload you to spotify.
Personally 90% of my listening in the car is from bandcamp these days, the app has actually become a nice way to que up a few albums and hit the road.
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No need for me to boycott Spotify as I’ve never used that service.
I listen to the radio, my old CDs and vinyl and watch YouTube videos, mostly of older performances that are starting to show up such as Peter Gabriel era Genesis, PMG, Yes, and a bunch of jazz and jazz fusion.
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I also buy Vinyl and experimental stuff and do what I can to support local stuff.
But some new Vinyl starts to hit the 40-50 bucks.
I apreciate a nice edition but it‘s becoming a little bit pricey.
But I also have Apple Music which I also use to check out whats new.
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Just the fact that you need a leech like Distrokid to upload music to any of these streaming services is enough to deterrent me from ever putting my music up on them…
Bandcamp 4 lyfe
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Yeah, I didn’t put my last album on Spotify for that exact reason, and when my distrokid for this year expires I won’t be renewing. Nobody listens to my music on streaming anyway so it’s a waste of money.
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I don’t think I have anything against Spotify but I don’t use it. I personally dont like curated music for me as i have ZERO belief that it’s natural. We had a family membership or something like that but we both decided to cancel it after sometime as I wasn’t using it already.
I listen to music on SoundCloud and only listen to people I want to listen. Most of my time, I listen to one artist’s full discography until I get sick of it. Or I listen to certain DJ mixes, sometimes over and over again.
Never used Spotify, didn’t know it existed until I came here. Apple Music for the win! Play one song I like and it’ll continue to play similar songs into the night! No CDs, Cassettes and vinyl to worry about storing. Just my phone and a Bluetooth speaker! It’s awesome!
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Until you check how much artists get paid, that is.
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Not insensitive to anyone’s plight but I highly doubt those artist care how much I get paid for my boring job!
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here’s an example of a boycott resulting in sxsw divesting from u.s. military sponsorship:
one of my favorite bands, beak> (among other groups) threatened to pull out of latitude festival for their association with barclays :
and it resulted in this :
these are just two examples but they both relate to the music industry - imagine how much power groups/artists could have with a little bit of solidarity
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Because… private equity. The PE societal rapists strip and ruin everything of any societal value.
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Best streaming service around. The curation and front page is excellent. So much easier to find interesting music, especially world and classical, than any other service! Love it.
Hasn’t this always been the case, way before streaming? Artist make little on records and most of their money playing live?
I’m not saying it’s right but if they knew it getting into it, kind of hard to complain about it! It’s like going to concert and complaining the beers are $10 each!
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Can’t stand SC either. It feels very much in the same vein as Spotify.
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Yeah, I pay SoundCloud and still hear ads.
On MY OWN TRACKS!!!
Damn leeches.
Still haven’t taken the time to remove them all though.
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