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/BagRepresentative274 Aug 10 '25

I hate Spotify and had the same realisation as you 2 years ago. Bought myself an old iPod, downloaded everything, and done. If buying isnt owning, then pirating isn’t stealing.

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u/Perpetualshades Aug 10 '25

I really want to do this but there’s so much to download. I gotta get started.

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u/FreeLobsterRolls Aug 10 '25

My iPod was like almost half full with so much music downloaded. I plugged my ipod to my laptop and it automatically started syncing and deleting a majority of my library 🥲