The latest Black Keys album, El Camino, hit stores last week, but has been notably missing from many of the popular music streaming services such as: Spotify, Rhapsody, and Rdio. Apparently, the Black Keys have taken such a deliberate stance for financial reasons...
Drummer Patrick Carney recently told VH1: "Streaming services are becoming more popular, but it still isn’t at a point where you’re able to replace royalties from record sales with the royalties from streams." "For a band that makes a living selling music, it's not at a point where it’s feasible for us."
Carney also told VH1 that he is fine with streaming services such as Pandora, which are built to encourage listeners to sample new music on a song-by-song basis, but is skeptical of Spotify, which he says is "set up to be a little more fair for the labels than for the artists." 
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