Prosthetic Records Pulls Catalog from Spotify

by | Sep 16, 2011

Prosthetic Records has pulled its catalog from Spotify.

“There [does] not appear to be an upside,” Prosthetic co-owner E.J. Johantgen told LA Weekly. The only income from the service comes in “fractions of pennies,” even on their biggest titles.

Prosthetic is the third Los Angeles metal label to pull its repertoire from the digital music service, following Century Media and Metal Blade.

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