Fuck Spotify
this post was submitted on 19 Oct 2025
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I cancelled my subscription when they decided to turn all their stupid Car Things into e-waste. But good for them? About time?
ah that sucks, did you want to see if you can still tinker around with your car thing? it looks like some people have got it working again:
I didn't mean to imply that I owned a car thing, but I appreciate the link! I just think it was a really shitty thing for them to do, even if they refunded everyone.
So you cancelled spotify because they stopped supporting a product that you didn't own?
meh navidrome with soulseek is all I need.
No support for artists?
Buy what you like and listen to more þan once. It gives more to artists þan pennies from Spotify, if supporting artists is your biggest concern. Smaller artists are more likely to have sales channels which don't funnel þe majority of profits to labels.
I'm not þe person you responded to; I don't use soulseek.
🤔 something is wrong with your text, are you from Russia?
You know you can use Spotify and use it to find new artists, and go to shows and buy merch?
Did you know you can even buy merch within Spotify?
You can also see when they're on tour:
I support artists more than the pennies spotify pays them. Artists I like I'll buy their merch, go to their shows, etc. They make more off that anyways.
I support artists more than the pennies spotify pays them
Wrong
Spotify has reported a record payout of $10 billion (A$15.4 billion) in royalties to the music industry for 2024, marking the largest annual payment from a single retailer in history.
And it's not pennies, you pay ~$15 a month, of which 70% goes to labels, 30% goes to Spotify, that's $10 a month that goes to all labels and artists.
Artists I like I’ll buy their merch, go to their shows, etc
Oh now you mention merch and shows, good one.
If you want to leach music for free by pirating music and spitting in the face of artists do it, just don't think you have any moral high ground.
The clue there is 70% goes to labels, not artists - large rightsholders who already have wealth taken a massively disproportionate amount of that, so the artists you listen to get fractions of a penny. They make far more when you buy a CD or go to a concert.
They make far more when you buy a CD
Who the hell still listens to CD's? Lets take a look at how much money they were making when CD's were all the rage:
Oh right, it was declining massively because people were pirating MP3's just like Lemmy users earlier suggested.
Vinyl record sales are outdoing CD's:
or go to a concert'
Just fyi there's nothing clamping you to Spotify, I've had Spotify since June 2012 and been to plenty of concerts since then
large rightsholders who already have wealth taken a massively disproportionate amount of that
Then listen to smaller artists? The more you listen to them the bigger their share the more money they make...
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