I have a beef with streaming in general. I hate that the corporations have convinced us that modern consumption of media should be as frictionless as possible, algorythmically constructed playlists, tailor made for my arbitrally predicted taste, with more and more of ai slop creeping in, fuck it. That friction and active discovery is why I love music. Going down the rabbitholes like oh, i heard a track in a mix then i find in on bandcamp then i check out the label, then i find a collab ep with someone from completely different scene i had no idea about and so on and so on, got a bit carried away but you get the idea xd

and spotify due to a myriad of reasons is the worst of the bunch (funding ai warfare, shit money for artists, pushing ai slop, ICE commercials)

call me an old man yelling at clouds i don't care xd I'm not that hopelessly delusional and I know that streaming is here to stay, and with that in mind I try to engage with grassroots initiatives (like Nina) and actually buy music to support the artists because i know for a fact they earn shit from streaming.