The service is worthless and music is free. That's what you get when you give it away. Apple just killed the music industry.
*edit* All employees receive Beats earbuds, too. That's nice! It's a good holiday gift. Thanks Obama!
That post made NO sense. Giving what away? Apple has to subsidize those subscriptions. They aren't "free" in any sense of the word except to the employees.
They "killed" the music industry? WTF are you talking about?
The Obama comment tells me all I need to know about you, really including the strange logic.
I'm one of those schmucks who grew up pouring money in records and CDs - combined about 850 all up. There is no way I'm paying for music ever again. I've done my bit for the industry.
Does that mean you don't buy or listen to music anymore or that you've decided to become a pirate?
But it's time the young whippersnappers started putting out some cash to sustain the industry you cheap b'stards.
Says the person who will
never pay for music again.
Personally, I bought a couple of dozen LPs last year (far more than CDs or digital files). They're not hard to find online, even older ones (I got Wild Cherry LPs brand new in the shrink wrap made in the late 1970s and didn't pay more than $15 for a single one (most were $8-11). If you figure inflation, that was a pretty good deal. Of course, I have a number of very limited made 1990s records that are worth as much as $800 (i.e. Pink Floyd PULSE LP set never opened). Selling that one LP alone would pay for about 70-80 CDs or so.
I used to pay 30bucks a CD
I think you got ripped. I don't think I ever paid more than $28 for a single CD and those were Japanese imports of albums you couldn't get in the U.S. I don't think domestic single album CDs
ever cost me more than $18 from 1987 to the present. Most were $12-14 for new releases and I got hundreds from CD clubs for prices probably averaging around $5-6.
10-15 bucks a month. That's all Apple music or its rivals cost
I have months where I don't listen to music at all except in the car (busy at home doing other things including other media like movies, games & TV). It's not a good deal if you don't use it.
Meanwhile, let's see. 800 albums over let's say 30 years. At let's say $12 a month (averaging your $10-15 example), that would be $4200 over 30 years for digital streaming for that time (making a hell of an assumption about prices staying constant) and 800 albums at an average of $10 for digital albums to buy and you're $8000 total. Personally, I doubt most "average" people ever bought anywhere near 800 albums in their lifetime and certainly wouldn't listen to them that much. I have closer to 400 CDs plus a few dozen LPs and some digital singles as well, maybe 5000 songs worth total in iTunes. 500 total albums puts that figure at $5000 compared to $4200 for streaming at $12 (or $5400 at $15). Suddenly, the figures don't look so far off, after all.
Now how many of those songs would you actually LISTEN to? Half? One fourth? I say that because I have gobs of albums where I only like a song or two and after the first few listens, skipped the rest, but I still had to pay for them for all that time and that is the beauty of streaming. If you don't like something, you can find something else.
. Yeah yeah, the music industry brought this on itself and music today is just tragic for the most part, but still, for that little amount of money, why aren't people subscribing?
I don't subscribe because I already own 5000+ songs and I don't get off listening to random crap on the radio. I want to hear music I actually LIKE. And if I like it, I probably already bought it.
