Before Spotify, it was common for people to convince themselves that they were pirating music to stick it to the labels, who were supposedly treating the artists unfairly — better the artist gets nothing at all then too small a share.
Moralizing Convenience
Before Spotify, it was common for people to convince themselves that they were pirating music to stick it to the labels, who were supposedly treating the artists unfairly — better the artist gets nothing at all then too small a share.