I’m still buying CDs, perhaps three or four most months, sometimes more, occasionally vinyl, but I keep Spotify for auditioning purposes, to avoid rash and impetuous purchase decisions based on glowing reviews that aren’t warranted, to hear music that is not physically available at a reasonable price for one reason or another (lots of t…
I’m still buying CDs, perhaps three or four most months, sometimes more, occasionally vinyl, but I keep Spotify for auditioning purposes, to avoid rash and impetuous purchase decisions based on glowing reviews that aren’t warranted, to hear music that is not physically available at a reasonable price for one reason or another (lots of that), and because shelf space is now at a premium and I’m not in the mood to ditch any of my collection (although I probably should). So, whatever the shenanigans behind Spotify’s financing, it sounds like a scam from the beginning, I hope it continues in operation without becoming worse. In its way, it rather reminds me of Tower Records back in the ‘70s and ‘80s - everything you could want (with a few exceptions) and more at low, low prices. Yes, I know - look what happened to Tower! One of the real tragedies of the music business.
Frankly, in many ways, Apple Music already looks better than Spotify, but I don’t like its default commingling of my own downloads collected over the years and its streaming service. At the end of the day, whatever the moans of musicians, the looting by music companies, the inadequate online experience, I think it is quite utterly amazing that, if one has the curiosity, one can hear a huge amount of the world’s very varied and mostly uncommercial in American terms music at your request even while walking down the street. Whatever the future holds, I hope we never lose that ability.
Excuse me, I must go and check my Dusty Groove shopping cart - and Amazon. Things are piling up.
I’m still buying CDs, perhaps three or four most months, sometimes more, occasionally vinyl, but I keep Spotify for auditioning purposes, to avoid rash and impetuous purchase decisions based on glowing reviews that aren’t warranted, to hear music that is not physically available at a reasonable price for one reason or another (lots of that), and because shelf space is now at a premium and I’m not in the mood to ditch any of my collection (although I probably should). So, whatever the shenanigans behind Spotify’s financing, it sounds like a scam from the beginning, I hope it continues in operation without becoming worse. In its way, it rather reminds me of Tower Records back in the ‘70s and ‘80s - everything you could want (with a few exceptions) and more at low, low prices. Yes, I know - look what happened to Tower! One of the real tragedies of the music business.
Frankly, in many ways, Apple Music already looks better than Spotify, but I don’t like its default commingling of my own downloads collected over the years and its streaming service. At the end of the day, whatever the moans of musicians, the looting by music companies, the inadequate online experience, I think it is quite utterly amazing that, if one has the curiosity, one can hear a huge amount of the world’s very varied and mostly uncommercial in American terms music at your request even while walking down the street. Whatever the future holds, I hope we never lose that ability.
Excuse me, I must go and check my Dusty Groove shopping cart - and Amazon. Things are piling up.