Cool. I've been off Spotify for years. Buying music from Bandcamp and similar has worked out. (Though now that I'm unemployed I'm not spending any money, but like I always say if capital wants me to spend money they have to pay me some first)
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Another reason, beyond Joe Rogan, to drop Spotify.
Gizz on the right side of history as always.
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Love this band, and it makes Spotify less useful to me that they're off it
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Qobuz ftw
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WOO!
Man I love this band. Based AF
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Being a millennial I remember conversations about what a scam record label deals were to artists because they'd only give bands a few dollars for each CD sold. This is of course old news to gen X and older who had known earlier that record deals were a scam usually heavily slanted in favour of the label.
Then Spotify came out and it was reported that it gave ~$0.003-0.007 per stream to labels (then artists would get a smaller cut of that), and I dismissed it as a hilariously terrible deal.
But I was wrong and most people seemed very happy to give up their mp3 & physical collections so they could stream a wider library, I guess it's unrealistic to expect most people to choose ethics over convenience. There does seem to be a swing back to rolling your own micro server hosting something like Navidrome or Plex and streaming your own music, which is great to see.
P.s. I'm a KGatLW fan and have a couple albums on Bandcamp, this is gonna make me buy a couple more in support. Great group of people
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I must be one of the only millennials to never use Spotify. I used Deezer for a while because I got that for free for year with a Samsung phone many years ago. I still have boxes full of actual CD's in the basement...
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I hope this wave influences more big names to release on Bandcamp, at the very least.
Much smaller but better spoken artist (well idk, Ki g gizzard doesn't go out talking a lot...) Red Means Recording did the same.
Here's his take. If you're not familiar with Jeremy or his YT channel or his music, I highly recommend him: https://youtu.be/LQRtKD4gx1k
And also the first video/song of his I ever saw/heard.
They will be trapped on YouTube tho. Should something prompt them to consider leaving that platform too.
For shame. I know lemmy isn't the place to support this opinion but I do not want another streaming subscription.
Maybe I'll just have to take their advice and "bootleg it".
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