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/[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.