The fact that this is receiving downboats and 'but muh convenience, artists deserve to get fucked over because Spotify found a better way to exploit human psychology!' is truly an orange site moment. I pirate the majority of the music I listen to (and most artists except for super rich mainstream ones would rather their music spread as much as possible than receive literal pennies from a Spotify stream) and buy stuff from Bandcamp when an artist is actually still around and making stuff. I never listen to ads and have all the files saved locally in lossless formats. I've never had a Spotify account for anything other than a podcast that is exclusive to it and have never cared to switch, and can't even use the excuse that I'm too old and stubborn in my ways.
