How to sign up for U.S. Spotify without Facebook account

Short version: 
Create a German account and switch to U.S. afterwards.
Long version: 

The jury is still out on how exactly Spotify affects music industry around the world. Some say it makes it harder for small, unknown outfits to brake through, because, with all that music available at user's fingertip, competition's becoming too tough. Others say it's a great opportunity for labels and artist to collaborate with the service and pocket some extra money, otherwise lost to "piracy". To some extent controversies stem from the fact that one of the major investors in Spotify is Sean Parker - a founder of Napster (portrayed by Justin Timberlake in Social Network movie), thus a person universally hated in music business circles. What matters for us is, he was certainly a man responsible for very tight integration of Spotify with users' Facebook accounts, mostly in the USA. Although, as of September 2012, U.S. users are not restricted anymore to accessing the service solely via Facebook login, they still need an account in this popular social networking service in order to sign up.

It may come as HUGE surprise to some, but there are people out there who don't like Facebook, and don't want to ever use it. They dislike it  so much, they will probably never read this post, because there is a Facebook button underneath. When those guys try to sign up for Spotify (and they come from the USA, or just use U.S. IP address), they're greeted with following screen:

Only if they finally succumb, and sign up for Mr. Zuckerberg's social platform, will they be given a choice of either registering via Facebook, OR creating a Spotify account using just an e-mail address. Now, that's good enough for most people. Majority uses Facebook anyway (hell, they can't live without it), so they don't have any problems in the first place. Those who do, can sign up for Facebook, use it for creating Spotify account independent from the social platform, and then continue using those credentials, slowly forgetting about trauma caused by interacting with the "evil" social networking service. But what about those who simply won't use Facebook, no matter what?

Well, in case of a free Spotify account, after the initial 6 months period, and compared to other countries where the service is available, U.S. users have (at least for now) no additional restrictions, but they are forced to use Facebook during the process of account creating. On the other hand, we have Germany, where you can sign up without Facebook, but there are restrictions on free account, and even if you plan to go Premium, German account still sucks, because it's more expensive (€9.99 =/= US$9.99). So basically, paranoid Facebook haters want to sign up for German account, and then switch the country to U.S. (you are allowed to do it ONCE only, so there is no switching back).

To do the above, first you need to pick up a German Proxy (any one from this list should do). You can also find a proxy that supports SSL, so you won't get the following warning and/or a heart attack :-)

For the sake of this tutorial, I will use https://seeproxy.me/ . Paste the following URL https://www.spotify.com/us/signup/plain/ into the field in the middle of the page and click on 'Surf!' button:

This time around you won't be bothered with Facebook, which is a really cool thing, given your irrational antipathy towards this great social networking service with over a BILLION accounts ;-)

After you click on "create an account using your e-mail address" ( it most likely won't work in Opera, for whatever sophisticated technical reason [pun intended], which means you may need to grit your teeth and force yourself into using another browser), they will try to lure you into signing in with Facebook account once again. But you'll just fill the required data in. Since "you are in Germany", use a German Zip code - 04003 should be just fine. Click Continue, on the next page choose the free Spotify, click Continue for the last time, and (after exactly 90 seconds) you're done.

Close the Proxy window/tab, make sure you have U.S. IP address, go to Spotify website and edit your profile. Change your country from Germany to USA, and the Zip code to your real one (if you live in the U.S. - otherwise leave it as it is).

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P.K.

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