The profit of these services, bringing 'your music to the masses', for the artist proper... is nihil. Free advertising? Yeah right
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Thus becoming the 'new' record companies.
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To support the music you like as much as possible: buy your cd's / vinyls / cassettes from either the artist directly, or from the (mostly small) label in the underground music industry.
This way you a) enable the artist to make more music and/or b) enable the label to give other projects a chance to join 'the business' and c) make SURE your financial support goes there where it belongs.
Music downloads only make a select few a bit "extra select". so if you can't live without digital format: buy the CD and rip it for your device yourself.
thank you for reading.
sincerely yours,
IZ, just an artist.