• stevedidWHAT@lemmy.world
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      2 years ago

      This guy asking the real questions. They’re already fucking over their artists, please give me a reason to start pirating music again.

      Please.

      • slavojrizzek@lemm.ee
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        They have an estimated 212 million premium users. That’s an additional 2.5 Billion dollars they’re looking at per year.

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          How else will they grow insatiably like the rest of these capitalist pigs??? They have to predict everything, do everything, be in everything, become your fucking God

          Shit ain’t cheap

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          Theyre also in the hole and interest rates went up again to nobody’s surprise. This price hike is not out of the blue and imo pretty reasonable.

      • GONADS125@lemmy.world
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        2 years ago

        I’ve been using a cracked spotify android APK with no ads and unlimited skips for years now.

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        The quality is pretty good and dl speeds are superb if you get it from spotify. Only need a free account and plenty of good apps to assist in getting playlists, podcasts and full discographies.

    • Bleeping Lobster@lemmy.world
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      They’ll find another means to serve ads to Premium customers. I pay for it because it’s very convenient access to lots of music, and the rights holders are compensated (albeit not as much as I’d like).

      I’m already pissed off that they blatantly insert ads in the middle of sentences in podcasts (if you check the premium wording, it says “ad free music”). Might consider cancelling if they hike the price.