I’ve been thinking about shelling out for a Spotify premium account.
I’ve always spent money on music – tapes, vinyl, CDs…i’m an album hoarder. I buy albums that I really rate and like to own the physical copy.
I favour owning physical copies for two reasons; Firstly for my own collection, I like the idea of dusting them all off when i’m a grumpy old man and showing people what ‘real’ music once sounded like. Secondly, because I used to think I owed the artist at least that in cash. But…now the industry has changed – music is no longer where the money is, artists earn most of their big bucks from touring, live shows and endorsements…blah blah blah.
If I go digital it’s a choice between two: iTunes Vs Spotify. If I brought music through iTunes I would obviously own the music but then have the added issue of storing it.
At the moment i’m leaning towards shelling out £10 a month on a Spotify premium account. That’s the equivalent of about one CD I suppose. The benefits of this being…
- Unlimited listening access to tonnes of music
- I can create loads of playlists and easily link to them
- I can fill my iPhone with music and make it available offline
- It’s much quicker and easier to manage and find new music
- I can listen to my music on whatever machine I log my account into
- I don’t have the ass ache of syncing my iPod and storing all the music files on a computer that I don’t own (I use my work laptop atm)
Anyone else made a decison on this recently? What do you think?
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