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    "This article is from 2020",
    "here’s a tool that will scan your Spotify playlists"
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  "textContent": "iffeelscouldkill:\n\n> ralfmaximus:\n>\n>> riseofthecommonwoodpile:\n>>\n>>> if you illegally download all of your music and then buy like 2 albums from smaller or independent bands you’ve likely already done more to pay musicians than a year of spotify streaming. just pirate everything and send some walking around money to a couple artists you like. they’re probably on bandcamp, wait till a bandcamp friday. spotify hates you anyways.\n>>\n>> Next Bandcamp Friday is May 1st, 2026!\n>>\n>> Even buying from Bandcamp in-between Bandcamp Fridays yields more profits to the artist than Spotify. Bandcamp charges artists 10% to 15% to host their music, compared to $0.003 and $0.005 per stream on Spotify.\n>>\n>> That’s right, you’d have to play the same song 200 times minimum to earn the artist $1, and 30% of that $1 earned goes to Spotify. Worse, Spotify pays the _rights holder_ these royalties, not the artist. So if your band has a contract with a label, the LABEL gets paid, then the artist gets a percentage of _that_.\n>>\n>> This article is from 2020 but illustrates the issue with an example. The spotlighted artist earned $4200 from Bandcamp via 700 customers in two days. The same artist earned $100 from roughly six years of streaming.\n>>\n>> Also, while you can stream from Bandcamp, you can keep your music! Download the mp3 and it’s yours forever.\n>>\n>> Also also, there’s no ads!\n>>\n>> Also also also, there’s no AI!\n>>\n>> WHY are you giving money to Spotify??\n>\n> Psst, here’s a tool that will scan your Spotify playlists for tracks that you can buy on Bandcamp.\n>\n> It will throw up a few false matches but it’s genuinely been fantastic for me in finding artists I never knew were on Bandcamp so I could support them directly there.",
  "title": "if you illegally download all of your music and then buy like 2 albums from smaller or independent…"
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