This is now a diary. A diary of how SoundCloud slowly, cleverly, begins shitting on accounts who aren't corporations, regardless of if you've payed them or not. Offense #1 - Until today, only artists or users you had specifically followed contributed to your feed. Users previously received a small "promoted" plug on the right panel in the "who to follow" section. Now, promotional groups can apparently push their tracks directly into your feed. And WHO WOULD HAVE GUESSED... comments (and comments exclusively) were disabled for the track that is being forced down god-knows-how-many's throats! Oh, it's going to get worse, don't you worry. I'm bending over to grab my ankles.
You're not wrong, I see the utility, but the very act of requiring installation of a 3rd party software adds a layer of complexity no one wants to deal with. Additionally, to get "the best" RSS reader, I'd have to shell out five bucks. SoundCloud is written in a language that is practically ubiquitous, and undeniably free.* Even though I think the interface isn't the best, it looks like Bandcamp may be the best option for now. *Apparently it's mostly built with Go, a C-based coding system, and Ruby on Rails. Then compiled into HTML, I guess. Programming noob here.
I like Liferea and Newsbeuter, both of which are free.