What Spotify took from us by giving us everything

Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge, Getty Images Art and commerce are unholy bedfellows, and nowhere more so than in the music industry — never a savory business, not in the mob days and not now. Liz Pelly’s Mood Machine, a dive into the history and workings of Spotify, is a useful guide to the way the streaming platform has altered the business of being an artist, but it’s one that avoids the conflicts between being a consumer and a patron of the arts.
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