Myeah, I kind of thought that way as well but when you get down to the nitty gritty and understand how little you actually support the artist vs the companies behind it, it feels kind of pointless. Like imagine buying a $20 album and the artist only gets $2 off of that, which they then have to pay taxes for, after/if the label has recouped its costs/marketing/etc.

It's just, how are things still like this and how are things not moving more p2p with the tech we have is my question or general wondering.