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The problem is that if your tastes are not very conventional, the "exceptions" are half the cases, and you start to wonder why you bother. A good example is Mo
by icebraining 8y ago
The problem is that if your tastes are not very conventional, the "exceptions" are half the cases, and you start to wonder why you bother.
A good example is Morphine's The Night. We're not talking about a bootleg record, it's a proper studio album owned by UMG. Yet it's not available on Spotify, Google Music or Amazon Music. It's on iTunes, but that requires installing a native app, which doesn't run on any of my devices, including the most popular OS in the world (Android). Alternatively I can buy a CD, which will cost me something like $50 with shipping, and rip it myself - and that's only because I still happen to own a desktop with a CD drive.
- buckminster 8y agoAmazon has it for cheap. https://www.amazon.com/Night-Morphine/dp/B000046PUL https://www.amazon.com/Night-Morphine/dp/B000046PUL
- icebraining 8y agoIt's not cheap once you account for the typical 100-200% in cross-Atlantic shipping charges.
- CDSlice 8y agoJust a FYI if you buy music from iTunes you get DRM free files that you play pretty much anywhere. It's how I get all my music on my Android phone.
- icebraining 8y agoYeah, but I don't have anywhere to run iTunes :/
- ahakki 8y agoc’mon, ur on haxxor news and u cant run a windows vm? there’s a free image on microsoft’s homepage, and I bet you’ll manage to get itunes working and transfer the music within the free trial period.
- icebraining 8y agoSure, but don't you see the absurdity? I have to download and install VirtualBox, download a full Windows VM image, download and install iTunes on it, create an account, create a virtual credit card, register it on the account, purchase the album, and then copy the files out of the VM. All so that the artists get about $1 from my $10. Or I can download a torrent and give those $10 to Vapors of Morphine on their Bandcamp page, which is much easier for me and will net them about $8 instead. So fuck the leeches, I'll keep pirating.