I came up in the era of Napster/Soulseek. Paying for music was a foreign concept. I think I bought 2 or 3 albums in my life.

But here comes Spotify and suddenly I'm okay paying $10 a month for music. Pretty much buying an album a month.

These are some diabolical marketing geniuses.

Same thing with Uber. How did they convince a whole bunch of people who never considered being taxi drivers. Probably would have scoffed at the idea. But now they are driving cabs and happy about it.

Is there anything you never thought you would do/pay for, but the marketing eventually got to you?

Legal fees for representation alone would be more than what I pay for Spotify.

Some of them just based on the album cover.

I’m actually buying 10,000 albums a month. Best deal ever.

>Some of them just based on the album cover.

that was advertised as "coming soon" on No Limit for like 6 years.

https://open.spotify.com/user/dme123456789?si=TLY2kWJZQrKjuRul2-rzag

i always liked to go and buy albums of artists that i really wanted to support. maybe 5 a year. never liked the idea of paying for subscriptions but im considering it.

first notch was being able to share a playlist without needing to make a long mix, process it and upload it. so i would acquire many albums and listen to them, make a local playlist then recreate the playlist in spotify. i tried listening to it in spotify but the quality was garbage. i guess the paid version improves the quality.

i also wanted to check out an album on spotify but i couldnt figure out how to listen to it in order, only shuffle.

notch 2 a & b, so fast forward a few months and im now looking for a way to play different music for uber riders (more on that later). let me back up a little, i am trying verizons new unlimited (no limit on 4g, just has the potential to be delayed at anytime) so i was like let me test this unlimited out. streaming just wasnt realistic without unlimited data. so i was going to sign up for the 3 months $1 trial i remember seeing for spotify but saw its not currently available. so i decided to give google play a chance since it had a free 3 month trial.

notch 3 really has to do with the fact that you can get basically every album ever. for $10/mo its really not bad. so this year its been hard to stay up on new releases. when a new album comes out that i really want to hear but not ready to pay i have had a hard time finding it by other means. right now im looking back at lists and picking which album i want to check out and bam its there. not to mention the play music player sounds great. i use poweramp with custom eq settings and songs sound the same on play music player, or just about. the main concern i have about play music is the limit to amount of songs in a playlist. in my 2018 playlist i have over 300 songs. in a typical week i like to just put on my playlist of all songs that i really like, over 3,000 and just listen to that all week. from previous use of the free google music i remember it would repeat songs often. if i could listen to albums i downloaded on google play but didnt purchase in poweramp i might be sold. i can find the songs in poweramp but the albums that are cached as part of the streaming service are not playable only albums i downloaded.

on uber, i think conditions just lined up right for me. ive always liked driving for some stupid reason. i got a 3 row suv that i have a pretty good payment on but im upside down on so no real chance of trading it in for something more appropriate for me. so i figured why not make some money with it. its forcing me to interact with people and different personalities so who knows i might even develop people skills. after 3 weeks its looking like i can make decent change for the amount of hours im driving. so its gonna help me pay for my car, my phone bill, my streaming service and possibly some debt.

downloading music illegally was never really as convenient

thats basically why i got it

that and i started having disposable income.

People will pay for things that have value.

>I came up in the era of Napster/Soulseek. Paying for music
>was a foreign concept. I think I bought 2 or 3 albums in my
>life.
>
>But here comes Spotify and suddenly I'm okay paying $10 a
>month for music. Pretty much buying an album a month.
>
>These are some diabolical marketing geniuses.
>
>Same thing with Uber. How did they convince a whole bunch of
>people who never considered being taxi drivers. Probably would
>have scoffed at the idea. But now they are driving cabs and
>happy about it.
>
>Is there anything you never thought you would do/pay for, but
>the marketing eventually got to you?

$10 a month feels like the right amount to pay to artist for their work.

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$0.001 cents per play isn't really fair either

i still buy albums and go to shows, but i know when i'm using Spotify, Spotify is seeing most of that money. Spotify and the label if its not an indie artist.

getting one album with 16 tracks, half of which suck