The Black Keys’ Patrick Carney, an outspoken critic of the free-tiered streaming model, has announced the band will no longer hold music from Spotify. The move comes “after five years of struggling,” Carney wrote on Twitter, because he’d “rather people hear our music than not.” Back in June, Carney said anyone who teams with streaming services without advocating for fair pay was a “sell out”; today, he said he’d still fight for fairer artist payments. See his tweets below.

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