I can second this. For example one of my favourite artists' work was so rare at some point in the past that it was only possible to get my hands on his work is to torrent it. Now we have Spotify and bandcamp so I can listen to whatever I want wherever I want whenever I want and I'm willing to pay a nominal monthly fee for the service.
True. Spotify is also a leaky abstraction. For example there were all albums of Atrium Carceri on Spotify and 6 of them were removed more than a year ago. I asked AC what happened and he told me that they are "reprinting" the old albums. I don't know what does that have to do with Spotify but now I'm in the limbo of sometimes navigating to bandcamp to listen to an older album and then navigating back to Spofity...I won't buy his albums because of the promise that he will put them back sometime but it haven't happened yet.
