Foals frontman Yannis Philippakis has become the latest musician to criticise the online music streaming service Spotify.
In highlighting was he calls the ‘insulting pittance’ which artists are paid by the site, Philippakis told Channel 4 News that he would rather somebody ‘stole the record on vinyl’ than stream his band’s work.
“I’d rather somebody stole the record on vinyl than bought it or streamed it on Spotify because I think you should listen to music on vinyl, and I think basically anything’s better than that,” he said.
“It’s like going to a restaurant when the chef and all the waiting staff have worked their asses off, and you leave coppers as a tip, and you don’t even pay the bill,” he continued. “That’s basically what Spotify’s like, I think.”
Thom Yorke and his Atoms For Peace bandmate Nigel Godrich brought the arguments surrounding online streaming and the services’ deals with major labels to the front pages when they announced the decision to remove their band’s music from Spotify earlier this year.