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> My relationship with music is now more suited to listening to a couple of tracks on any platform, and then buying it from Bandcamp. It depends on your Genre.
by _fat_santa 4y ago
> My relationship with music is now more suited to listening to a couple of tracks on any platform, and then buying it from Bandcamp.
It depends on your Genre. For me I freaking love Spotify because they have all the music I like to listen to all in one place for one flat rate every month and (almost) no bullshit, but I can see how someone who is into indie artists would prefer to go your route (I probably would if I was into that music).
One major gripe I have about the Spotify app on iOS is they can't seem to figure out background audio for podcasts. This isn't a big deal as I still use PocketCasts, but for Joe Rogan I have to use Spotify.
- Spivak 4y agoWeird, I think Spotify is basically the best thing ever for indie artists. I can find an artist I like on TikTok and then immediately with zero friction be listing to all their music. There’s no, “well I like them but do I like them enough to buy an album.”
- rodgerd 4y ago> I think Spotify is basically the best thing ever for indie artists. Funny, I know a couple who think that Spotify is the worst thing to happen. Streaming, especially at Spotify's rates, might as well be piracy. The income's no different.
- smaudet 4y agoAt least in the piracy model you don't have a badly made app between you and your music. You should still buy the album if you care about it, even with streaming.
- _fat_santa 4y ago> You should still buy the album if you care about it, even with streaming. I agree with this to a degree. If I really like a small indie artist I'll usually buy a Vinyl from them. But alot of the music I listen to is "mainstream" and made by artists that are already raking in cash, not saying that they don't deserve the same compensation, but I feel exponentially less bad that Taylor Swift is making $0.0005 per stream rather than some indie artist trying to make it.
- twmiller 4y agoBest thing for you in terms of getting to listen to indie artists, but what do they get out of it?
- ddoolin 4y agoI only use Spotify (well, and YouTube for a lot of indie Korean artists...?). At least if they sell vinyl, I regularly go buy vinyl/merchandise from them directly. Not that I'm in favor of the "Spotify pittance", just that it's non-zero in terms of conversions.
- Avamander 4y agoThey're actually visible? Without Spotify and YouTube I would've never stumbled upon some of the artists, bought their albums or listened to their concerts.