Music streaming services

Yant

Thanks. Not looking for your approval or interested in your opinion.

Along_the_Wire

Yant I’m just giving you FACTS. you still buying loads of artist albums at £13 a pop, or trying out many albums for £10 a month?

Porsche trabs? More like clown shoes.

Amps

Along_the_Wire you still buying loads of artist albums at £13 a pop

I do.

Smallman1

Spotify for me.

RichM

I’m using Spotify, would rather use an alternative, but I like the playlists I follow in Spotify, so would miss that going elsewhere.

I reckon 75% of what I listen to is in mixcloud or soundcloud.

rhouses

I used to get all music on iTunes and would pay for it. In India albums are about a £1.50-2.50, so I figure I might as well give back to the artist. Switched over to Apple Music for streaming for the passed 6 months, which is about a quid a month. My quality control has been switched on now, barely buy anything on iTunes.

303abuser

i was looking at other services yesterday, tidal looks like the best model, but they’re bloody expensive. for my wife and i it’s $30/month. for that price, i think i may just scrap paid streaming all together and just buy a new album every week on bandcamp. it’ll probably cost me less and all the money goes to the artists if they keep doing bandcamp fridays.

Homegrove

303abuser Bandcamp-Fridays are first Friday of the month only though, but they still pay the artists well.

RichM

303abuser there is something appealing about this, as it would mean going back to the days of buying an album and actually listening to it multiple times. The amount of albums I wasn’t too fussed about on first listen, but a few listens later and I loved them. I’m guilty today in not giving albums enough listening time to appreciate them as on Spotify I tend to listen to far too much and bin stuff off too quickly

Amps

303abuser just buy a new album every week

Fuckin double defo, is the right answer!

Dubman

303abuser
I only buy albums these days. And almost all of them I purchase from Bandcamp unless I can’t find it. In which case in get it from Juno.

303abuser

Homegrove yeah, i figure i’ll use the free plays to figure out what i want to buy and just save up purchases for once a month.

being an invalid for the last month has made me realize i spend too much time with tech and living a little more like it’s 25 years ago is a good idea. buy albums instead of streaming, make more music on hardware, use my phone for calls and work, read more and watch less, etc.

Amps

RichM actually listening to it multiple times

Boom!

303abuser

Amps and even one a week is a lot of music over the year. i love tech, but i hate these tech companies and their predatory business models. it’s time for me to change the way i do things.

303abuser

seems like a better idea to own things vs renting too.

Amps

I’ll add to this the idea of a ‘process’ too. If you own the physical media, finding the cd or the vinyl, taking it out of the sleeve, putting it in / on and pressing play etc. gives you that level of interaction where you’re handling the thing, looking at the artwork, maybe reading the sleeve notes or the like, and I think it all helps with your involvement with the music, more so than clicking a bit of digital text on a screen.

Mad_Cyril

Amps
I assume you’re making an exemption for John Terry’s monkey pictures?

Yant

Amps I agree.

303abuser

i really miss that part of it. i still have all of the gu sleeves and long boxes and it was part of the experience to unwrap it, read the liner notes while listening.

Dubman

Only ever bought the odd GU mixes as I was spending all my money on vinyl but I did enjoy reading the sleeve notes on the mixed CDs

303abuser

Dubman i bought everything from prague through toronto and maybe one or two after that. i may actually go back and rip them into higher quality files at some point, although i’m a bit lazy for that.

Mad_Cyril

PS. Zacko along shortly with some indecipherable boomer meme

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