Comment on Ethical alternatives to Spotify
Powderhorn@beehaw.org 11 hours agoOK. Lots of assumptions here. I haven’t listened to the radio since the '90s, and I’ve never paid for cable.
My preferred genres are progressive house and trance, and I got into the rave scene about the time I stopped listening to the radio. I started my collection via fservs on IRC, ratio FTP sites and then Napster and P2P, totally obviating the record labels. I’m subscribed to various music producers on YouTube for when I’m thinking I want something new, and if it makes me cry, off to Beatport I go.
So, like, not to be rude, but you got every assumption wrong.
Ulrich@feddit.org 6 hours ago
Zero assumptions here, I just asked a question.
Powderhorn@beehaw.org 3 hours ago
I hope you enjoyed feeling like you had a “gotcha” moment. When on my computer, yeah, I watch some YouTube, but mostly news and late-night monologues. I sure at shit don’t pay for it.
Ulrich@feddit.org 2 hours ago
I have no interest in “gotcha moments”. Just having a discussion about the virtues of streaming music platforms vs. buying.
If you don’t pay for it then you are pirating, which is a whole other discussion.
Powderhorn@beehaw.org 2 hours ago
“If you don’t pay for it then you are pirating” is not a discussion, it’s an erroneous blanket statement.
jerkface@lemmy.ca 5 hours ago
Even while you are being careful, you are still reading things in. He didn’t say he listens to music on YouTube. If you’re going to be pedantic, do it right.
Ulrich@feddit.org 5 hours ago
LOL you’re suggestion is that they said they’re subscribed to various producers but they don’t listen to them? Now that’s pedantic.
Powderhorn@beehaw.org 2 hours ago
Being subscribed is not the same as listening. In fact, I use a Firefox add-on to specifically exclude what I’ve categorized as music. It is vanishingly rare that I turn that setting off.
I strongly associate any given track with the mood I was in when I first heard it, and I’ve not been in anywhere near a good mood since the election, so listening to new stuff at this point would give it negative connotations that would forever follow that track around in my mind.
So I stick with “college road trip” or “I just met my (ex-)wife” sorts of stuff. I don’t exercise or anything, and my earbuds are lost somewhere in my van. I rarely listen to music, period, because it reminds me of not being homeless.