After your six month period is up, Spotify is to be limited to just 10 hours per month. You're also only allowed to play individual tracks no more than five times per month.

Am I the only one here who still buys music directly?

yes.

I have dropped spotify.

No direct debit, eg they could go mental with my debut card

Peer to peer, they use my bandwidth.

I never signed up for spotify. When I'm bored, I do fire up my wife's Pandora account and jerk the algo around by feeding it obscure tracks (currently "king of the dogs" Iggy Pop) and keeping it on a short leash.  I can get Pandora to 404 in about an hour  ....great fun, though I doubt this is what its developers intended.