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So what's your retort other than saying "you're wrong?"
It's not even really worth a retort? But comparing the way that a music streaming service works to Costco makes zero sense. It's widely known that all of the streaming services pay artists less than they should compared to the amount of money they make from those artists' music, but Spotify is the worst offender by most accounts.
 
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