Please stop using Spotify. I pirate all of my music, and you should, too!
this post was submitted on 27 May 2026
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Pirating is WHY artists see the shit deal from Spotify as swallowable. Fuck you! You’re not entitled to someone else’s music.
I buy from Bandcamp, but I'll stop pirating the rest when Zuck is behind bars for stealing everything at once.
Mate, I'm sorry, but I will absolutely not accept any attempts to shame me into supporting the incredibly exploitative music industry. Artists will create art even without being paid, because that's how human creativity is. I'm literally an open source developer and I've written millions of lines of code without seeing a single penny for my work. Keep yelling into the void if you want, it changes absolutely nothing. If it helps, I also support stealing from corporations.
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Thankfully I don't use spotify. Pretty soon the only song available to us all will be "Entrance of the Gladiators".
Spotify was never any good. That fact that people even use it just help demonstrate how stupid the average person is.
No. Use Metrolist instead.
The sentence could've ended after Spotify...
Did that last year. :)
Good on you! I switched this year