Treblestuck: Listen to non-commercial works on non-commercial devices.
So most likely, Spotify's copyright bots finally started to ping on the fat stack of copyrighted karaoke tracks in the files posted by "Broadway Homestuck". This isn't a surprise. They don't belong there for many of the same reasons AO3 bans compensation. And then there's the biggest reason, which is that the person wringing them for money over there contributed absolutely nothing to their creation.
I am 99% certain "Broadway Homestuck" on Spotify (or itunes, or google play, or whatever else, it's a few places) is unaffiliated with anyone who actually produced those tracks. I don't support them because they are getting paid by Spotify for others' work, and the track art they have selected makes me strongly suspicious that they are profiting off of me, specifically, saving others' work (and making it look like it's me doing it!). What they are doing is in my estimation the second-worst-case possible scenario that could come from my actions and I'm really, really bummed out about it. Tindeck tracks were licensed for noncommercial distribution and spotify et al. are explicitly commercial. I don't want anyone to ever think that I am benefitting inappropriately from what I'm doing here.
The reasons I think this are
the... odd selection of songs, particularly due to facts of personal history and collaborations. The most stand-out example is La Seine, which *is* a Broadway Karkat collab, but it was posted to the duetist's account, SkylarCapuch. It is also not a parody, just a fun duet the singer did. I have it for archival reasons and I put it in BKK's folder because SkylarCapuch didn't have anything else to put it with, so it is technically misfiled by my own rules. Again, it is not a homestuck song. The only reason it's on this Spotify is because they grabbed all the files from me and didn't know what they were looking at.
a couple of specific typos
the album art, which I added when a given track didn't have any originally affixed
missing attribution for collaborators such as Kylee Henke, which is really unlike OG BKK
zero announcement on any OG BKK social media, which is BIZARRE for an artist opening a new income stream!
Nobody who knows what it is calls it "Broadway Homestuck". It's "Broadwaystuck" and has been for 12+ years.
and the fucking smoking gun, 7) You Can't Fight The Homestuck and Stuck This Way have NOTHING TO DO WITH BROADWAYSTUCK and there is no WAY in hell OG BKK would have touched that song with a ten foot pole. Those are from Kylee Henke's entirely unrelated project, Fruity Rumpus Meme Factory.
Not to even mention the album art on """"volume 2"""" is from Crab Guy (2019) not anything in 2013. but that's not my fault
If you see this man (or these) as album art, I put him there.
There are a few sources of legitimate homestuck fanmusic on Spotify, such as Totalspiffage's work. But this one ain't it.
Download and save what you love to your own devices. Don't pray for the continued favor of a corporation or a phony.
Download Treblestuck.
Download all BroadwayKarkat.
Download all KyleeHenke.
Download everything (CONTENT WARNING. SEE README)
