CarlsIII

There’s a neurodivergent social app?

Hey, they’re harming old people’s mental health too!

A religious magic ghost alien!!

Legion told me you’d say that. I mean, nuh-uh.

Exorcist

It’s also not a new or Spotify-centric problem, either. Labels have been screwing over the artists for decades.

Oh man, I sure do. It’s not just new releases, it’s also older music I haven’t heard before. There has been so much good music over the years that I’ll never be able to listen to it all before I die.

I’m bummed that I don’t think Spotify really does right by the artists (and other issues with them).

One thing I feel like people keep forgetting is that artists weren’t making much money off CD sales or radio plays anyway. People tend to single out Spotify as a unique problem in the industry, but things weren’t necessarily better before. Artists have always made most of their money from ticket and merch sales. It was true then and it’s true today. And it’s also still possible to use Spotify and also still pay to go to concerts and buy merch.

With Spotify you can listen to thousands of new albums a year. Some of them I do listen to again, yes. Also you can listen to playlists (I do both.)

If I buy one album a month for a year, that’s about the same as a subscription except I get to keep what I bought.

That would mean you only get to listen to one new album each month. And getting to keep the album only matters if you eventually stop paying, but then you won’t get to add any new albums to your library until you pay for another one.

Spotify has provided me access to so much music, it’s incredible. I will never be able to go back to such a limited library after being able to experience the ability to listen to almost any music I want whenever I want.

Literally none of those were options on the radio unless you were recording it (and cassette tapes still cost money.)

You don’t even have to make stuff up to get it to hallucinate. I once asked chat gpt who the original bass player was for Metallica was, and it repeatedly gave me the wrong answer, and even at one point said “Dave Ellefson.”