Absolutely! I applaud your actions 100%!
The rest of my response is not directed at you, @Microtribe, but are more general thoughts on the topic. So many artists complain about Spotify and get absolutely nothing from the incredibly arrogant leadership of that company but they don’t have the balls to say ‘I refuse to play your game’.
That’s why I started that Spotify hate-thread:
And as a side point. There’s something like 60,000 tracks released a day – whatever the actual number is, it’s a fuckton. No one has time for all that shit. I’m quite happy discovering the more underground stuff on Bandcamp, thank you.