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Welcome to the era of only Spotify Plays matter - let's take a look at the underbelly of streaming scams affecting independent artists.

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[–] yesman@lemmy.world 136 points 3 days ago (33 children)

A long time ago, you could go to a special store and trade government paper for music disks and tape that you got to keep forever.

[–] cosmo@lemmy.world 37 points 3 days ago (18 children)

When I discovered that it was possible to buy and download drm free lossless flac-files i went back to buying music again. Never looked back tbh.

[–] UnbrokenTaco@lemmy.world 6 points 3 days ago (8 children)
[–] qwank@lemmy.world 8 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)
[–] cosmo@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago
[–] UnbrokenTaco@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago

Oh, I thought that was only indie artists

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