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"The CEO of Spotify thinks music is made for free and is his to sell, promoted as ‘content’. Please always try to buy records (‘vinyl’), cds, T-Shirts and go to gigs where you can afford to support bands you love."
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@reillypascal Also musicians, stop putting your music on there.
We all know we’ll barely make a pence from them but they want us to be dancing monkeys doing their promo.
@reillypascal@hachyderm.io Yikes! I feel less guilty for using apps that leech off of a Spotify sub without paying for it. 😬
(I do buy albums on Bandcamp, since that benefits artists a bit better for now.)
@reillypascal
I have been on Spotify with an albums for 9 years now. This gave me 9,78€ so far, which I'd have to share with the band members from back then.
Since the record was released in 2015, we were able to sell CDs back then. Approx. 1/3 of our audience had a CD player still, and for the rest we provided Bandcamp download codes. It was possible to pay the recording this way.
Recording as a service is one of the things I offer professionally today, but musicians don't buy this no more. Since Streaming has killed the CD almost entirely, most musicians cannot afford a recording engineer any more.
But already in 2015, people told me: I cannot listen to your record, it is not on iTunes. So they simply ignored it.
It's not Spotify's fault alone. It's also the listeners who don't give a fuck about putting any effort into collecting music, buying music, finding music, etc.
@reillypascal
I have been on Spotify with an albums for 9 years now. This gave me 9,78€ so far, which I'd have to share with the band members from back then.
Since the record was released in 2015, we were able to sell CDs back then. Approx. 1/3 of our audience had a CD player still, and for the rest we provided Bandcamp download codes. It was possible to pay the recording this way.