People saying "Support the artists" - I don't care about the artists, I just want to listen to whatever takes my fancy, and if they can't do that at my price point, they will end up getting nothing from me..
$3k would still buy a very large physical collection. Most people didn't have that kind of money into a physical collection back in the day.
Vinyl prices are a joke, but CDs are often cheaper than a digital download if bought new and they are easy to find for $1-2 used.
It's kind of amazing you're OK having spent $3k renting music but think the only option would be to go back to piracy if streaming rental isn't available.
2 hours after I eat lunch, what do I have to "show for it"?
I'm perfectly fine with all the hours of music and the accompanying enjoyment I've received from paying Spotify, and that doesn't start to take in to consideration the amount of new music I have easily discovered.
I paid to bark orders at my Amazon Echo's / Google in the car, and vend literally any song I wanted.
You could look back and be like >> Its amazing your ok with spending 100k on food over your lifetime, you could have eaten grass from the side of the road for free.
Piracy is easy, Spotify was easier.
Buying and ripping CD's is Effort
It's only a couple of hundred CDs. If you buy a lot of low-priced ones, perhaps a few hundred.
Almost everything I own I do because it is not cost-efficient to rent (which is what I would prefer to do). i.e. if cost-efficiency were even, I would rent things like books, movies, or music.
Why would artists give anything to you?
>Why would artists give anything to you?
Literally not my concern.
Will you stop listening to music if/when the unprofitable music streaming services shut down? What happens if/when Alphabet, Amazon, and Apple are barred from tying and bundling their services?
It seems like artists and labels will simply revert to pay per song/album and legal battles instead of wasting resources on listeners who aren't willing to pay a meaningful amount for music. At your price point, you'll probably be able go back to buying a few hundred songs / dozen or so albums a year.
There is not enough money in music for both the record companies and spotify, et. al. to simultaneously rob the artists. These streaming companies being the new middle man are going to be the first to lose out. Especially if the record companies wake up and start making their own stores/services.
I very much understand it. I just don't care.
There will always be some form of music. I pay my money for it. If they can't get by on some agreement from the record industries, I really don't care.
> Not my concern, I will just rollback to having an offline downloaded library if Spotify / All you can eat music stops being "Easy"
>Will you stop listening to music if/when the unprofitable music streaming services shut down?
No, I will just stop paying for it.
>What happens if/when Alphabet, Amazon, and Apple are barred from tying and bundling their services?
Yarrrrrr
>will simply revert to pay per song/album and legal battles instead of wasting resources on listeners who aren't willing to pay a meaningful amount for music.
Then they get nothing from me..
I think it all rolls back to - > Would they rather have 1 million listens at 0.5P or 1 million listens at 0p.
I've heard this idea of streaming being bad for music bandied about, but I don't believe it. streaming solved by piracy problem by getting people to actually pay for music. People in the industry like to complain about streaming, but I'm not actually sure that 'the good ole days' are actually better, or if people just have rose-coloured glasses about what the actual state of things were.
You are right that streaming-only companies cannot afford to take the same loss on streaming as Apple/Amazon/Google. And IMO that's probably a good thing: we need to find the balance between producers and consumers, not subsidize it with phone sales.
If Spotify can't make money after cutting royalties 50% over the last 3-4 years how can that possibly work?
Realistically Spotify is a whole bunch of people making a lot of money as middlemen, but they can't seem to figure out how to actually make money.
In the long run these services are all unsustainable and bad for music.. I sometimes wonder if the young people going back to vinyl is somewhat of a pushback on how lame the entire experience of using these streaming services can be.
Podcasts can do well and have done well for a very long time in a small business model with sponsors & product promotion.. throwing massive money at them has always seemed an odd choice.