TIME FOR CHANGE
Opium Cartel’s guitarist says, “Many fans don’t know how bad things are at Spotify.”
Online streaming has been around for a while now. It’s great in many ways, but most fans are probably unaware that it’s bad news for the artists they love. You can’t blame listeners for not knowing because the people behind these services do their best to cover up the damage.
Before I go on to attack Spotify, I must confess: I use the service myself. I look for new music, and if I like what I hear, I’ll order a physical LP online. As a mixing engineer I use Spotify if a band tells me, “Give it that nocturnal crunch of the Debased Babykillers’ third EP!” I’m not going to spend money on a garbage record so I hit it up on Spotify… usually to ascertain that I can ignore the band’s instructions!