re: #84 000G

Not the point. Relevant comparison would be iTunes, where artists get paid much more for plays than on Spotify.

Legal music is legal music.

Itunes is overpriced in the market.

I used to use a service called e-music.com where for $7 a month i got 50 downloads from white stripes and most of the indies.
Similar tracks from artists on itunes were atleast three times as much.