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Right, and if they did most artists would make their albums purchase only, thereby blowing up Spotify's subscription model. After all, are you a premium artist or not?

By refusing to add this feature, Spotify makes Deadmau5 look like the bad guy to his fans.

Deadmau5 isn't the first to do this, a lot of artists delay a week or two. It's no big deal.

They still think its 1998 and that we still go to the store to buy albums on Cassette

They could monetize rapidly with Amazon Affiliates

the beauty in spotify is the simplicity. Gamification makes no sense in this context.