fun fact: if you pirated six full length albums from your favourite band, listened to them all back to back 5 times, and then sent them $20 on ko-fi or whatever, on average they would have earned slightly more money per play than they’d get from you streaming the same shit with ads on spotify.
invariably when I talk about media piracy people are like “but what!!! about creators!!! they need to make a living!!!” my homey in romey if you’re that worried about it send your favourite artist $5 right now. do it. shut the fuck up.
I want to support artists but I can ONLY do it if I’m being drip fed shittier and shittier versions of the content a tech executive thinks I want. I have no choice in the matter because uhhhhhh other people won’t pay for things if they’re free. yeah that’s right. other people are the problem.
here’s the piracy secret big media don’t want you to know: you can always give artists money if you want to.
ADDENDUM: woke up this morning and realised my math was off (I missed a decimal place). your favourite band would actually earn about 10x more per play from your $20 than they would from spotify.
That means you could pirate six albums and listen to them 50 times each, and you would only owe around $20 in spotify equivalent fees. Figures below the cut since people keep disputing them in various directions in my inbox:
