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Yes, sure, but if those don't get paid, artists don't get paid. And artists are not forced to pick a label, they are free to go solo, but they still prefer labels, so it's not that black and white labels bad, artists good
Well if you genuinely care about seeing artists get paid the ones who need it most tend to make their conent available already for free on bandcamp or similar services, and have physical albums and merch you can buy.
Last night i spent $10 on 3 albums on bandcamp, those artists each made more on that single purchase then they would from thousands of streams.
Spotify making less (or more) money does not trickle down to artists on a per stream basis.
Dont be a corporate bootlicker. Say it with me now, "If buying isnt owning Piracy is not stealing. "
It is really refreshing how this thread spins in "we know what's best for the artists, certainly not paying for listening to their streams, that's exactly what they want". If you don't want to use Spotify, that's fine, I don't want to either because they are an awful company. But that doesn't make you the person who create the rules for artists nor does it give you the permission to listen to illegal content.
I dont think its a huge leap to think artists would rather you be able to buy their music once and make a $ instead of stream it from a sevice that pays them next to nothing.
What is stopping them? But it seems that general consensus here is that artists would like you to listen for free and here and there buy something from them.