Re:Spotify is first music streaming service to surpass 200M ...
by epistemer on Tuesday January 31, 2023 @10:49PM
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The old music business thrived on vinyl then 8 track then cassettes then CDs.
$15 in 1985 is about $40 adjusted for inflation and they convinced people to buy the same music multiple times. To even find that music you liked enough to buy multiple times too you probably bought 5 albums that you thought sucked.
I can remember as a kid in the 80s too that my father and all his friends easily had 500+ vinyl albums on display in their homes. Then those started collecting dust as they bought hundreds of cds.
It is just so different now. Imagine spending $40 bucks for 10 songs and have no idea if you will even like them. That is a totally different racket.
$15 in 1985 is about $40 adjusted for inflation and they convinced people to buy the same music multiple times. To even find that music you liked enough to buy multiple times too you probably bought 5 albums that you thought sucked.
I can remember as a kid in the 80s too that my father and all his friends easily had 500+ vinyl albums on display in their homes. Then those started collecting dust as they bought hundreds of cds.
It is just so different now. Imagine spending $40 bucks for 10 songs and have no idea if you will even like them. That is a totally different racket.