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 So what is this? Me caring about artists? I mean, yeah, I don't like Spotify and I'll take any argument I can get. I genuinely believe that Spotify's pro rata payout model is predatory and fully in line with how corporate likes to monopolize industries.\\
-But, even if it was changed to a fair(er) model I would still not like Spotify, at all. It comes down to //catalogue//, //paying for music// and //work pipelines//.
+But, even if it was changed to a fair(er) model I would still not like Spotify, at all. It comes down to //catalogue// and //paying for music//.
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-?? Are you insane? Seriously, how rich are you? How rich, irresponsible or just ignorant can you be that you don't mind spending 13€ on this, when you have alternatives that are far more complete, faster and give you full control over the things you have? You wanna support a creator, buy their merch. Yknow what, just buy their fucking album, just not through Spotify?? Like, you can spend ~10,000€ on music over 60 years, I don't mind - just don't do it through Spotify. Find the most direct way to financially support your favorite artists, and use that. Saves you money, removes all the unfairness in Spotify's pro rata model, makes you feel better //and// you get your music for free, all of it. And you also have their merch now. I cannot describe just how lazy and irresponsible going through Spotify is, when, even if you genuinely want to support music development and artists, there are a bazillion ways of doing that.
+?? Are you insane? Seriously, how rich are you? How rich, irresponsible or just ignorant can you be that you don't mind spending 13€ on this, when there are alternatives that are far more complete, faster and give you full control over the things you have? You wanna support a creator, buy their merch. Yknow what, just buy their fucking album, just not through Spotify?? Like, you can spend ~10,000€ on music over 60 years, I don't mind - just don't do it through Spotify. Find the most direct way to financially support your favorite artists, and use that. Saves you money, removes all the unfairness in Spotify's pro rata model, makes you feel better //and// you get your music for free, all of it. And you also have their merch now. I cannot describe just how lazy and irresponsible going through Spotify is, when, even if you genuinely want to support music development and artists, there are a bazillion ways of doing that.
 It is only corporate propaganda that makes you think that you should submit to a model that gives 30% of your money to Taylor Swift, and that this model is better than listening to music for free (and making sure that you support your favorite artists). If Spotify were free, I would still not use it over being limited and clunky, but at least people wouldn't be morons for using it. At this point it would essentially be a platform like YouTube, just a bit worse ((Spotify has a reduced catalogue, but yes I understand that it is better streamlined towards actual music and does things better than YouTube in terms of keeping its catalogue //clean//(Ie. less duplicates and problems like this.))).