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[Speaking as someone who doesn’t make music…] I think artists can have fans (who contribute time and admiration) and supporters (who contribute money) - obviously many people are both in the music domain, but think about other artforms: if I pick up a book at the library, love it, and then spend a couple of months borrowing, reading and enjoying the author’s works from the library, am I not a fan? Or I follow a visual artist’s work over the years, maybe reading curator’s essays or interviews, never buying an actual artwork - am I not a fan? Of course it’s ideal to buy music when you can afford to, and I love that sense of helping the artist (or label/project like Longform) to do what they do in a small way, but it’s not the definition of a true fan. Though we also get a sense of identity from our collections, don’t we? As for Spotify claiming “fandom” for their dismal fee structure - pathetic!

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