as a consumer & creator though i don't have a problem with it. no offense but some of you are really embodying the "boomer" mentality here of not being able to embrace a modernized way of listening to/storing music - it's not outlandish to purchase physical music etc while still using something like spotify (which, by the way is still more advantageous to the artist then simply buying a CD or something & only listening to that over & over)
sure, more money could theoretically go to the artist, and the system of promoting/linking to merch could be waaay more user/indepedent-artist-friendly, but the system of purchasing merch, music, tickets & stuff like that from the artist while still listening regularly via apple music, spotify or whatever is kind of the best of both worlds
|