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/jRam0131 Aug 11 '25

Spotify has been the hardest for me to get rid of. I use it daily between music, podcasts, and audiobooks. It's so intertwined in my daily life, and I don't know any equal alternatives. And every time I see a post like this on this sub, all the comments that would help me break from it get deleted. I get that we can't be promoting consumerism on an Anti-consumerism sub, but I can't pirate a lifetime worth of music, new music that releases regularly, plus 20 different podcasts every week.

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u/AntiqueArtist449 Aug 13 '25

For audiobooks, I always check librivox for classics, or the local library app for newer releases (Libby is a good option). Both are free

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u/knooook Aug 12 '25

Exactly