Spotify gets a pretty bad rap these days: whether it's drawing criticism for paying out inadequate royalties to artists, creating fake artists to avoid paying royalties altogether, or belittling the effort that artists put into making music, it seems that the streaming giant can't quite catch a break.
YouTuber, producer and musician Rick Beato has levelled yet another accusation at the increasingly unpopular platform - and streaming services as a whole - in a recent interview with Rick Rubin for the Tetragrammaton podcast, arguing that streaming has "devalued" music by making it "too easy to obtain".
