Comment on Ethical alternatives to Spotify

• Powderhorn@beehaw.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ 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.

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  • Ulrich@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ 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.

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    • Powderhorn@beehaw.org ⁨49⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

      “If you don’t pay for it then you are pirating” is not a discussion, it’s an erroneous blanket statement.

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      • Ulrich@feddit.org ⁨41⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

        Good thing that’s not the discussion we were having then.

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• jerkface@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I’m subscribed to various music producers on YouTube

  So you DO enjoy streaming music…

  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.

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  • Ulrich@feddit.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨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.

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    • Powderhorn@beehaw.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ 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.

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