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King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard pull music off Spotify over 'evil tech bro' ownership

King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard Pulls Music From Spotify Over CEO’s Investment in ‘AI Military Drone Technology’: ‘Can We Put Pressure on These Dr. Evil Tech Bros?’

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Cool. I've been off Spotify for years. Buying music from Bandcamp and similar has worked out. (Though now that I'm unemployed I'm not spending any money, but like I always say if capital wants me to spend money they have to pay me some first)
- Quick note for anyone going this route: take note of when Bandcamp Fridays happen and buy your music then. They waive their cut and much more of your payment goes directly to the artists! I take those days to go through my follow list and buy any new albums that have come out since the previous Friday.
  I put them on my Plex server and use Plexamp to stream them. Jellyfin has Finamp that I hear is also good.

Another reason, beyond Joe Rogan, to drop Spotify.
- I wonder if there's a list of artists that dropped out; Neil Young, King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard, who else?
  edit: oh, Deerhoof too! Yay!
  
  Didn't Neil go back though?
  
  Xiu Xiu
  
  Dr Steel!

I love King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard!
Now I love them even more!

Gizz on the right side of history as always.
- Totally read that as "Jizz on the right side of history".

WOO!
Man I love this band. Based AF

Love this band, and it makes Spotify less useful to me that they're off it

Nice. Spotify sucks ass. I just use Tidal nowadays but there are other, better alternatives.
- I've been looking into migrating to Tidal, what other better alternatives are out there?
  The only reason I stuck with Spotify for so long is because I don't really pay for it (long story short, a family member gets a free family plan through her job)
  
  I’ve started using Qobuz which is not USA owned and has not sponsored Trump (like Spotify which granted is not USA). It has been ok!
  
  Been using Tidal for a while myself, tbh its not great. Music quality and selection are fine, the UI is just... not there. Really basic music player things like setting things to shuffle or loop by default or on an individual playlist basis just don't exist, its solely a global on/off setting.
  
  I moved from Spotify to Tidal and am very happy with it. Much better sound quality, good recommendation algorithms, bigger catalogue, pay artists much better. I like it.
  Plus they don't offer shitty content like right wing or adult podcasts or lets-play videos so I can let my kids use it without having to monitor it so much.

Qobuz ftw
- Seconded!

I must be one of the only millennials to never use Spotify. I used Deezer for a while because I got that for free for year with a Samsung phone many years ago. I still have boxes full of actual CD's in the basement...
- I have never used Spotify
- I specifically use a phone that still supports MicroSD because I have 147gb of music in FLAC format that I ripped myself from my CD collection that I keep on my phone. The only music streaming I've ever used is free trials of Amazon music and tidal and I thought they both sucked.
  Funny thing is, I'm in need of a new phone and there are so few options that accept an SD card that I was actually considering ditching my music collection for Spotify after all these years. I've also noticed that for some reason US versions of phones always have way less storage than their global counterparts. What's up with that.

Much smaller but better spoken artist (well idk, Ki g gizzard doesn't go out talking a lot...) Red Means Recording did the same.
Here's his take. If you're not familiar with Jeremy or his YT channel or his music, I highly recommend him: https://youtu.be/LQRtKD4gx1k
And also the first video/song of his I ever saw/heard.
https://youtu.be/7z4hoazra_g

They will be trapped on YouTube tho. Should something prompt them to consider leaving that platform too.

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