"More merchandise than music"

I follow bands and artists through their newsletters and social media updates (Facebook, that is). When an update is made, I get excited. However, nowadays the updates are more about restocked t-shirts, badges and flasks than new music. It's a sad fact that many bands and artists find it hard to make revenues from music. In fact, many bands and artists basically have to pay to put out their music. At least, if they release anything physically. This can't be right. The ones to blame are companies like Spotify. Their motto is an insult. "Our mission is to unlock the potential of human creativity—by giving a million creative artists the opportunity to live off their art and billions of fans the opportunity to enjoy and be inspired by it." A true motto would be "Our mission is to deprive the potential of human creativity—by ripping off a million creative artists the opportunity to live off their art and deny billions of fans the opportunity to enjoy and be inspired by it." Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. For Spotify, that is. I have nothing against merchandise. Unfortunately, I have all the t-shirts, badges and flasks that I need (and it's not much). I don't judge. And definitely not moralize. But, I do care. In my world, music always comes first.