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Damn, spotify truly is a scourge to artists.

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The entire music industry is built to grift money from musicians and Spotify is a second layer of musician grifting industry built on the first.

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You know what, you’ve convinced. Your specific suggestion of ‘guillotine’ was particularly compelling.

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Owned by Sony

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Sony, Universal, and Warner. The three parasitic conglomerates that own the rights to almost all popular music between them.

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Yep, spotify pays a fraction of what napster, tidal, and apple music pay while raking in record profits each year.

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napster

what

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Yep, it is a legal streaming service now.

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