Everyone wants an answer: What’s the ethical alternative to Spotify? The one I often provide is, unfortunately, unsatisfying to many, because it is not simple. There is not one single answer. It’s certainly not merely to download Apple or Amazon Music, or some other app that allows you to pay $10 a month for all of the music in the world. Rather than seek out another fix-all app, we should be honest with ourselves about the reality that this very model fails to meet the needs of most independent artists and listeners, and grapple with the complexity of that. Supporting art is a different
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