And the enshitification begins.
Remember that you as users are next.
Find a sustainable alternative now. I personally recommend bandcamp + youtube combo. Yt to explore and find new music, Bc to buy the music I enjoy and __own__ it.
Find a sustainable alternative now. I personally recommend bandcamp + youtube combo. Yt to explore and find new music, Bc to buy the music I enjoy and __own__ it.
For new music, I tend to at least give a few seconds to every new release that is of an even slightly interesting sub-genre, older stuff sometimes shows up in what people post they are listening to, but there are also listening pods (me and two others are currently doing a one album a day discography run of Necrophobic), and adopted months: March was Screamarch, where two people curated a list of Screamo and adjacent albums/eps for every day, now it’s Finlapril where a Finn curated 1-2 albums a day moving through the history of Finnish metal.
Since joining, my monthly bandcamp purchases went pretty far up, though. And I’m only buying digital albums, there are quite a few who do vinyl purchases for even higher bills.
[0] https://www.angrymetalguy.com/
[1] Vera Sola - Peacemaker https://verasola.bandcamp.com/album/peacemaker
Unfortunately such sites are increasingly rare these days.
Unfortunately with YT I've had to cancel my Premium subscription on - they want $34/month, and I'm not paying that.
I'll move to using third party apps/adblockers, and paying some of the creators I watch directly.
Also, I got it wrong, it's $32.99/month.
> To continue delivering great service and features, we're increasing your price to A$32.99/month.