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[–] FoxyFerengi@startrek.website 178 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago) (9 children)

Since day one, we have stood with the artist community against piracy, and we are actively working with our industry partners to protect creators and defend their rights.

Lmao. They protect and defend artist rights so hard they they've refused to pay a fair compensation, and have taken it further by promoting AI artists over actual artists. This statement is almost comical after it was reported that they've had copy cats to replace King Glizard and the Lizard Wizard when they pulled their albums from Spotify

[–] Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works 8 points 6 hours ago (4 children)

If you use Spotify to listen to artists, you certainly don't actually respect them. Fuck you people who give money to Spotify.

[–] reabsorbthelight@lemmy.world 1 points 3 hours ago (3 children)

Is there an alternative way to contribute to them? I would happily send money directly to the artists, but I don't know how

[–] FoxyFerengi@startrek.website 3 points 2 hours ago

Bandcamp is what my bands like to use. They often have events (Bandcamp Fridays) where 100% of purchases go to the artists. Some bands also make decent money off merch sales from their own storefronts

[–] kazerniel@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

Artists tend to have websites where they sell their music or link to places where they sell it.

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