Guess you don’t deserve art 🤷‍♂️ Happy freeloading!

Ratio :)

Why do you need to have music that you can’t afford?

If you can’t afford music you don’t deserve music. It’s not a need; it is a want. You can live without wants until you’ve saved up enough money for them if you’re an adult.

Ratio. They don’t sound like very successful artists lmao

I wonder why they wouldn’t be on Spotify if it’s so good for artists? 🤔

Please explain what you mean by “canned statement” exactly? Is a factual statement not relevant if it comes from someone you don’t like?

Wait, so when you use emotional language it’s “I’m allowed to talk how I want” but if I follow your rules and do the same you call it a “crash out”. Nice perspective and nice new account.

“Argument” isn’t just when your parents yell at each other and your dad hits your mom. You were very clearly making an argument. And now you’re arguing that you were not making an argument. Now you’re backing away from your argument because it can’t be argued anymore. Hope this explanation helps.

It’s not a high horse. I’m a human that made a choice to support artists the best way possible. When you pirate music or stream it, you’re diluting the share of profits that go to the artist. It’s really that simple. There’s no reason to pirate music or stream it if physical copies are always available. Hell, buying the album on BandCamp to receive a digital copy is also available.

Lmfao ok. Does this mean you’re done arguing your shit point? If you pirate music you are supporting artists even less than Spotify does. Hope you feel good about that, you managed to one up the predatory corporation.

Not sure how you did it, but you attempted to refute my point and then went back to argue for it. Buy music from artists and don’t stream, especially do not pirate.

Why should you have music if you can’t afford it? Do you need it to live? I’m a fucking musician, I am absolutely defending artists. What instrument do you play?

My argument is that people should pay artists for their music. Folks that use Spotify to any degree are the ones supporting the corporate juggernauts. Go directly to the source. Please don’t misrepresent my argument in the future.

Edit: trying to cover all my bases. In pop music, the “artist” is the collaboration of all the corporate entities responsible for producing their talent. I don’t listen to that shit either. Just try to know the artist you’re listening to.

Wow, you got back to me very quickly. So what did your musician friend say?

Ken Parks, CEO of Spotify, said “Piracy was sort of ingrained in that culture (in reference to pirating programs like Napster). But now Spotify is ingrained in that culture in a way that’s reduced piracy greatly. It’s removed the incentive to pirate.”

Spotify told British MPs in a parliamentary inquiry that raising its monthly subscription above £9.99 could “push users into piracy” using the piracy threat to resist price increases that would have meant higher royalties for artists.

Spotify was founded in 2008, a moment when the music industry had been devastated by online piracy. Revenue had already dropped from $14.6 billion in 1999 to $6.3 billion by 2008.

Spotify has since added filters that cut royalty payments to tracks that don’t reach a certain stream threshold, further adding pressure to smaller artists who had the least leverage to begin with.

The rise of piracy led directly to the creation and power of streaming services like Spotify. Need me to spell anything else out for you?

Edit: Waaaaaiting for a response!

This is probably true and all, but I have no sympathy for Perry when other addicts deaths are swept under the rug and blamed on the addicts themselves. Only the rich get to enforce this level of accountability.

They all sell their music online. I can do without all the personal, emotional garbage from you. Please keep your point succinct.

I have yet to find an artist that is available on Spotify that doesn’t also sell their music by the album for a fair price.

So just because something is easy, I should be able to steal it?

You’re an idiot if you think paying musical artists for their work is exploitation. Seriously, brain dead. You don’t deserve music.

Ask a musician and get back to me. You have no perspective or common sense.

It sure is. Can you explain how you receiving a product from someone while they receive nothing is not theft?

Yeah… it’s called a music collection? Why should you have access to other people’s work for free?

So wrong. Why should you have access to other people’s hard work and creativity for free?