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george@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

• blitzen@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  That’s a real Sophie’s choice there. Or, reverse Sophie’s choice. Spotify isn’t American, but it’s also a horrible horrible company to support.

  Piracy is my choice here.

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  • wildbus8979@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Also thirft stores are full of CDs and hipsters still haven’t gotten to them so they are pretty cheap!

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  • idefix@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Piracy doesn’t have an easy way to discover new songs (somethind Deezer is much better at than Spotify). I’ll probably try Qobuz soon.

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    • blitzen@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Discovery isn’t a huge part of how I consume music, but your point is well taken.

      I’ve been using hooks into last.fm to suggest things I might like, and it’s worked pretty well.

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• A_norny_mousse@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Their headquarters are still in EU but if you look a little closer almost everything else is US business, incl. Trump & Thiel. Servers are Google’s.

  So “boycott US digital services” still very much applies.

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  • george@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    A lot of European tech companies rely on American infrastructure, since there aren’t many EU alternatives to what AWS and the like offer.

    But I see your point

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• supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  So what, it is an incredibly evil company.

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