You are right that Spotify is lose/lose/lose. It's helping crush the industry, they're losing money hand over fist, and artists aren't being supported. Awesome.

Like I said, I'm totally cool if people want to not pay for music. That's fine. Great. Continue to not pay for music! I won't even blame you. Just don't falsely believe that Spotify supports artists you enjoy. If you want to support an artist you gotta do it yourself.