For me, it's not that I don't want artists to have money. (I just found an artist I liked who uploads all their live music--quality recordings!--to Internet Archive under a CC license. I went to their website and bought all their albums on the spot. They should arrive in a couple days, and then I'll rip them to FLAC and put them on my jellyfin server.)
But questionably-ethical companies I try not to give money to, e.g. companies that only pay artists pennies, or might suddenly disappear music that I "bought". And that's on top of the fact that Spotify in particular actually kinda sucks at suggesting good music. I quit them in the middle of my free trial because I got tired of hitting "next". My friends are much, much better suggestion engines.
But questionably-ethical companies I try not to give money to, e.g. companies that only pay artists pennies, or might suddenly disappear music that I "bought". And that's on top of the fact that Spotify in particular actually kinda sucks at suggesting good music. I quit them in the middle of my free trial because I got tired of hitting "next". My friends are much, much better suggestion engines.