I wouldn't try to persuade you, but I would be interested in understanding this line of thought better. I could guess, if for no other reason than once upon a time (shock horror) I felt similar (although our reasoning might be different).
I can say that now I look at promotion as another creative task. There is a difference between marketing and sales although they do overlap. Marketing is yet another conversation between the artist and their fans.
There is a case to be said that as soon as you tell anyone about your music it is promoting it. Even posting it on a music website that does the promotion for you, you still initiated the activity by uploading the song. You are also branding yourself by using a logo, so I am interested in what marketing and promotion activities you find acceptable and which not or which are in no-man's-land? No judgement, just curiosity
All that aside, can I ask, what do you hate about promoting your music? Can you tie it down to anything that started you feeling this way towards promoting your music? What do you feel uncomfortable with? Is it an underlying motive? Is it a general aversion to promotion? Do you have a reaction to other people promoting their music? etc.
Are any activities at all okay?
I know for myself I used to think of salesmen as all being like double glazing salesmen. In my mind they were not to be trusted. At all. They were unscrupulous, greedy and self-serving. But my dad was in sales. A different kind of sales (in the whisky trade) and he is totally honest and ethical. I later realised that I had held onto that childhood mistrust of salesmen and sales activities, and that somehow, to sell, was to be dishonest. Funny the stuff we carry with us.
After I realised why I felt the way I did, I was gradually able to re-appraise marketing and promotion. I realised it came down to personal ethics. It always had. Much like a gun (and many other things in life). The choice of where and when to use it, and the threshold you have to pass in order to use it, are down to personal character.
I am not a money oriented person. I can appreciate it's necessity in the modern world and the benefits that a lot of money can bring, but personal wealth accumulation is not what drives me (as evidenced by me running Songstuff lol ). It's not what gets me out of bed in the morning.
I have taught quite a lot of artists about marketing and promoting their music. I promote Songstuff for that matter, though I do so fairly gently.
Anyway, I am honestly not trying to pick at you, I just find such positions and feelings intriguing, so I hope you don't mind me asking.