I wanna listen to a particular song by an artist who has recently turned pretty nazi. As I generally use Spotify I now refuse to listen to his music in there, esp as it generates earnings. I kinda wanna pirate the music somehow…I’m not gonna as I’m not gonna down a song or two and then store it on my phone like it’s the year 2000. But short story is this me justifying piracy to myself.

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[–] ScoffingLizard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Honestly, after seeing billionaires buy the US gov and then learning that Spotify is owned by a billionaire and artists are terribly compensated, I have been planning to once again fly the pirate flag. I want to pay the artists, but fuck the current options unless there is a different way idk about.

[–] gradual 1 points 22 hours ago

Might be a good idea to pirate and then contact the artists about setting up donation channels.

Publishers are obsolete.

[–] croaker@lemmy.zip 5 points 1 day ago

Bandcamp is decent. If you wait for Bandcamp Fridays, all of your money goes to the artist.

[–] Chais@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 day ago

I moved to Qobuz for that reason. Much better payout for the artists.

[–] brax@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 day ago

Don't forget that they fund the military complex.

Daniel Ek? More like Daniel Ick