No one can fill those of your needs that you won't let show

[brin_bellway]

[cw: corporate bullshit, (arguably) illness]


I've been living under a musical rock for the past few years (apart from store background radios), and my *god* I had no idea just how hard it has become to simply give artists money in exchange for receiving recordings of their songs.

I figured I'd probably have to do DRM stripping, but no, it's worse than that, *everything is streaming royalties* and there isn't even an *option* to buy.

Since the thing I was trying to buy was a charity single, I ended up pirating it and then donating $5 to the Canadian Red Cross (the charity they were supporting). That's not *not* buying it, right?

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[brin_bellway]

To put the cherry on top, apparently Youtube currently has the upper hand in its arms race against youtube-dl, so I had to use the (slower and more effortful) analog loophole.

[(Anonymous)]

Ah, I've been using Spotify downloaders for a while now, because the file quality is better than youtube. Or really, usually a Deezer downloader, because it's easier to steal from.