Foals frontman Yannis Philippakis hits out at Spotify

30 October 2013, 12:12 | Written by Luke Morgan Britton

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Foals have joined the likes of Thom Yorke and David Byrne in denouncing the royalty policy of music-streaming platform Spotify.

In a new video interview, singer Yannis Philippakis compared the amount the band make from online streaming as like using coppers to pay for a restaurant tip.

“I’d rather somebody stole the record on vinyl than bought it or streamed it on Spotify,” Philippakis recently told Channel 4. “I think you should listen to music on vinyl and I think basically anything is better than “.

Unlike Yorke’s decision to remove Atoms For Peace material from the service, Foals’ back-catalogue remains on Spotify at this moment in time.

[via Music Week]

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