Society is increasingly a series of more and more obvious and exploitative scams that we're tacitly "required" to participate in, but guess what? No one's actually required to have their music there and if everyone stops, they can't run their scam any more.

It's especially easy for most of the people who will see this to pull your music; I'm willing to bet most of you are making, at best, a few hundred a year, maybe a couple thousand if you're very lucky.

Is that worth it? Really?

And for the non musicians that see this, please consider discontinuing your use of Spotify. It's incredibly exploitative to the musicians whose music you're enjoying (unless you're only listening to the most popular acts on the service).

Honestly, even piracy is better for most musicians: at least that's not enriching someone else at their expense.

Spend your money on music as close to the source as possible. The Internet makes it possible to put money directly in most musicians' pockets.