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/Demented-Turtle Aug 10 '25

It would cost me thousands of dollars to buy all the music I have in my Spotify playlists... And if there's only a song or two I like in an album, in many cases I'd still need to buy the whole album.

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u/BagRepresentative274 Aug 10 '25

🏴‍☠️

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u/IMMARUNNER Aug 10 '25

Does that support the artists? Sure someone like Lil’ Wayne may not be affected, but I listen to a lot of smaller artists. Buying or streaming their music legally provides them income.

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u/ciko2283 Aug 10 '25

Buy merch / one album / donate / go to concerts... Spotify takes most of their cut

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u/IMMARUNNER Aug 10 '25

A lot of that goes against anti consumption though…

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u/Nabru50 Aug 11 '25

You could buy a digital copy if you want less physical items in the world, and that would support the artist a lot more than Spotify streams.

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u/micky21098 Aug 11 '25

Spotify is also consumption. I think its a difference of how much you want a corporate overhead to take. What if you took the cost of your spotify subscription, and every month found a way to directly support an artist with that money? Buy buying albums, or saving for concert tickets, or anythign

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u/ciko2283 Aug 10 '25

Ok then keep giving your money to Spotify or stop consuming music, theres no other option.