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Foals frontman Yannis Philippakis has hit out at music streaming service Spotify, slamming the pay that artists receive from the software as ann 'insulting pittance'.
Philippakis compared Spotify, which boasts over 24 million active users (6 million of whom pay for the service), to tipping without paying the bill at a restaurant.
"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 told Channel 4 News. "That's basically what Spotify's like, I think."
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The Oxford rocker added: "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 (Spotify)."
Philippakis is the latest in a string of musicians to criticise the music service, which launched in 2008, with David Byrne of Talking Heads telling the Guardian: "If artists have to rely almost exclusively on the income from these services, they'll be out of work within a year."
Radiohead and Atoms For Peace frontman Thom Yorke pulled all his solo work and Atoms For Peace material from Spotify in July, stating "New artists get paid fuck all with this model."
Foals brilliant third album is nominated for the Mercury Music Prize - the winner of which will be announced tomorrow (Wednesday 30 October, 2013). This week, the band re-released the album with a DVD if their critically-acclaimed Royal Albert Hall show.
Below: Exclusive photos of Foals' at London's Royal Albert Hall
