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[โ€“] alexaralvarado@infosec.pub 16 points 3 weeks ago (6 children)

I love every time this topic comes up folks be like "buy directly from the artist" or " use this other platform that is less evil" and the chads going on about "just pirate stuff, haven't payed for music in years ".

Hilarious. Myopic, limited, and / or dumb perspectives.

Would I love to pay directly to the artist? Sure, but their latest album costs as much as 6 months streaming in my country, and I only like a couple of songs, maybe. And let's not even go to the K-pop realm where I've seen a mini album with 5 songs cost as much as a year of streaming.

Pirate stuff? Well, excuse me for not dwelling in waters that may lead me to be drowned. Also, guess what? Some of us have niche or varied tastes that don't end up in some dark corner of the internet whilst most of these evil streamers have everything.

I prefer to wait every time one of these evil streaming sites puts up a 3 months free promotion or something like that and just use a new mail address with some fake info and enjoy.

[โ€“] Yerbouti@sh.itjust.works 12 points 3 weeks ago

A lot of albums on Bandcamp are "pay what you want". I just got 12 albums last friday (Bandcamp friday, all the money goes to artists) for around 15$. It's not much but it's way more then they would get from my streams on Tidal. I do this pretty much every month, and I have hundreds of albums. There's ton of way to support musicians, even with a few bucks.

[โ€“] clove@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 3 weeks ago

Drown? Does you country seriously pursuit piracy that hard? Sorry, that sucks. Us Americans have it lucky being able to just vpn that kind of traffic.

[โ€“] noodlejetski@lemm.ee 7 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

the amount of money from your streaming subscription that actually goes to your favourite artist is negligible (especially with Spotify, as they won't even pay any money to niche artists before they reach a certain amount of plays). I'd rather get my collection stored for completely offline listening, available in a high quality format and playable through any music player that I currently fancy using instead of a clumsy streaming app that tries to shove podcasts in my face or doesn't know how to shuffle properly, and then every few months spend the equivalent of two or three months of Spotify on an album that I really like on Bandcamp, preferably on a Bandcamp Friday, when Bandcamp doesn't take any cut from the purchase.

[โ€“] Irelephant@lemm.ee 2 points 3 weeks ago

If its on spotify - it can be downloaded.

[โ€“] gamer@lemm.ee 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Pirate stuff? Well, excuse me for not dwelling in waters that may lead me to be drowned. Also, guess what? Some of us have niche or varied tastes that donโ€™t end up in some dark corner of the internet whilst most of these evil streamers have everything.

https://lucida.su/

You're welcome.

[โ€“] bss03@infosec.pub 1 points 3 weeks ago

Thank you.

[โ€“] Nelots@lemm.ee 1 points 3 weeks ago

Some of us have niche or varied tastes that don't end up in some dark corner of the internet whilst most of these evil streamers have everything.

As far as this is concerned, you can always use Spotify/deezer downloaders. Websites like squid.wtf work well. They even come with metadata.