Why would I? Pay $1.49 to listen to 1 song over and over or pay $12 to listen to basically the entirety of human creation any time I want? Not to mention custom playlists and whatnot.
Comment on Ethical alternatives to Spotify
Powderhorn@beehaw.org 5 weeks ago
Old fart checking in … why not just buy the tracks instead of paying for monthly access that screws artists? I mean, each song is unlikely to be more than $1.49, and then you own it. I don’t have a streaming music account and never will because the idea of paying repeatedly for the same thing – with the option of it being pulled at any time – is nauseating.
Ulrich@feddit.org 5 weeks ago
Powderhorn@beehaw.org 5 weeks ago
My music collection spans some 1,700 tracks and several full albums. It’s not difficult to create local playlists, I don’t pay monthly, and I don’t have an excessive data plan because I need streaming. Look at the knock-on costs. It’s not $12/month.
Ulrich@feddit.org 5 weeks ago
I listen to probably at least a dozen new songs every day. If I bought them that would cost me $18/day. Or $540/mo. Not to mention the absolute fortune required to store them all locally.
Powderhorn@beehaw.org 5 weeks ago
I’m in the phase of my life where if I encounter a new track I like in the wild, I’ll buy it. But I’m not seeking out new stuff because (cracks open a PBR and grows a goatee) everything feels homogenized today.
Perhaps it’s just different use cases. Still, you’re dependent on a company to be able to continue listening to the music you like. That’s worrisome. If a company took away the collection I’ve been building since the '80s, livid wouldn’t begin to explain my reaction.
Powderhorn@beehaw.org 5 weeks ago
My 1,700 tracks, most at 320kpbs, take up 20GB. Albums add another 4GB. My four-year-old phone has 256GB of storage. I’m not sure where this “fortune” comes from. Especially when you’re paying extra for data monthly just to stream. You’re still spending the money, just pretending it’s unrelated to music.
jerkface@lemmy.ca 5 weeks ago
You could still do that without paying Spotify. Then you could go and buy the music you liked each month.
mcbenavides85@piefed.social 5 weeks ago
An old fart listens to entire albums! Fake!
I’m an old fart.
Powderhorn@beehaw.org 5 weeks ago
I prefer buying individual tracks to the Tower Records model of $20 before you know if that one song you’re getting it for is the only good one on the album.
coronach@lemmy.sdf.org 5 weeks ago
I like getting the whole album because it exposes me to the whole brainchild. It’s a gamble but sometimes my favorites are not what I would first have thought!
7U5K3N@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 weeks ago
So much money dropped at on cue / sam Goody’s back in the day only to get that tape / CD home and realize that one song on the radio was fire… but the rest of the album was just a train wreck of flaming garbage.
Bubbaonthebeach@lemmy.ca 5 weeks ago
Isn’t that why we used to buy 45s? And if you discovered the B-side was good then maybe someone would buy the album and everyone else would tape it?