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Comment on Spotify fans threaten to return to piracy as music streamer introduces new face-scanning age checks in the UK

caudatecoder@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

as an independent artist I just wanna add: the best thing you can do to support artists and bands is to buy directly / on bandcamp. spotify pays shit to artists, you need millions of listeners to get any meaningful amount of cash

of course that isn’t a sustainable option if you listen to a lot of different music. so piracy is an option that I wouldn’t mind. hell, if you like my stuff and just write to me I’ll send you mp3s for free

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infinitesunrise@slrpnk.net ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
Don’t forget to tell them to go to the shows!!

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- echodot@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  
  physically hand them actual cash with your flesh and blood hands!
  
  Most of the time you have to pre book BA some website that takes its 30% cut.
  
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- caudatecoder@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  music to my ears
  
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- isVeryLoud@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  Man, I wish I could hand them cold, hard cash. Instead, I gotta pay Ticketmaster to skim off the top first before giving the artist and their team peanuts.
  
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Taleya@aussie.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
Preferably on Bandcamp Friday

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MeThisGuy@feddit.nl ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
not in a lossless format?

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buddascrayon@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
This exactly. Pirating is still preventing the artists from getting paid for their work. Choose to buy albums from companies like Bandcamp over just simply stealing their work.

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