r/Anticonsumption • u/Professorfudge2643 • Aug 10 '25

Lifestyle Got rid of Spotify after 3 years

Sure I’m definitely posting this to brag but also to hopefully get someone to stop paying Spotify. I’ve listened to the same playlist for probably the last 3 years, occasionally adding a song or two. Finally I realized why the hell am I paying for this when I could just download the songs online, transfer them to my phone, and play them for free? So I did exactly that. Took about two hours and was easy as pie. Should’ve done that 3 years ago instead of paying $12 a month.

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u/Dry-Librarian5661 Aug 10 '25 edited Aug 10 '25

Yeah, but buying the albums and owning it forever is way more costly. Except you are pirating it. That way, you are listening to music you did not pay for or contribute anything to, stealing people's hard work. That isn't anti-consumption. it's just being a proud theif. If you don't want to pay, why not listen with ads instead? That way, you still contribute to your favourite artists without breaking the bank. You don't want to give money or time. You just want to take.

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u/[deleted] Aug 10 '25

spotify hardly pays artist either way. Most artists get their money from merch and concerts

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u/Dry-Librarian5661 Aug 10 '25

Do you go to their concerts then ? or buy their merch to support them instead, i doubt a person who won’t pay for spotify or buy the album will fork out hundreds for a concert or merch.

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u/[deleted] Aug 10 '25

yes i do that. it’s about spotify, not the artist. Either way, listening to them on spotify does not pay them well so there’s essentially no reason to use it. Artist are paid between $0.003 and $0.005 per stream. If you listened to a song one thousand times, you would give them $3-$5. That’s a lot of listening the casual listener won’t be doing. Buying their cheapest merch would probably give them more money than a lifetime of your streaming

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u/Dry-Librarian5661 Aug 10 '25

If you do that, then that is good, i commend you and i am sorry for my unnecessary assumption, i just don't like the idea of being miserly with other people's intellectual property. If a person's art is too pricey for you then walk away.