Spotify plans to raise prices this year and introduce new plans
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Last year's price hike worked out very well for the company, so why not do it again? Spotify is preparing a revamp of its plans and prices, according to a...
  • sunbunman@lemm.eeEnglish
    39·
    3 months ago

    Just a heads up to everyone, quitting Spotify and buying / “procuring” your own music and playing it via a music player makes reading this quite cathartic. Do it for the moral superiority and self esteem boost for no effort you come to the internet for anyways.

    • datavoid@lemmy.mlEnglish
      51·
      3 months ago

      I feel like piracy and moral superiority don’t really belong together

      • FippleStone@aussie.zone
        14·
        3 months ago

        You are clearly not aware of the windfall profits corporations are making, and that they are then passing exactly none of it on to the workers generating that profit

      • ShepherdPie
        11·
        3 months ago

        Yeah the moral thing to do is pay a third party company $130 per year who then pays an artist $0.20 per billion streams of their work.

        • datavoid@lemmy.mlEnglish
          2·
          3 months ago

          I mean the moral thing is just to not buy the product if you have an issue with it.

          I have no problem with piracy, but pretending you’re some sort of hero for doing it is ridiculous

          • ShepherdPie
            3·
            3 months ago

            How is that the moral avenue? You want these artists to fade into obscurity because nobody can ever hear their music while also not earning any money?

            • T (they/she)@beehaw.org
              3·
              3 months ago

              Not saying Bandcamp are the good guys but at least you have an option. And today is Bandcamp Friday, when artists keep 100% of the sales!

              We run our Navidrome server at home and listen to our music using clients such as Feishin and Tempo (Android).

      • sunbunman@lemm.eeEnglish
        4·
        3 months ago

        I always try to buy my music first, digital only though. I don’t have space for CDs or the like. If the option is not available (not common), the tricorn goes on. And normally I would go through any loophole I can find to get it legally. But damn, the Japanese really don’t like doing business with foreigners.