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Why do I want to pay 10 cents to preview songs that I can find on Youtube/Last.fm/Seeqpod/Grooveshark/MySpace/Favtape/iTunes (my preferred method)/Amazon/AmieSt

• delackner 18y ago
  Because it is only a matter of time before the labels ruin the Youtube music-video experience. In the meantime you are absolutely right. Driving up into the mountains with a few friends a month ago, we hooked an iPhone into the casette-deck and spent the whole drive thinking of awesome tracks to share, then streaming them directly from Youtube. It was like having the whole of human musical creation right there with us.
  • alaskamiller 18y ago
    I wouldn't worry too much about RIAA clamping down on YouTube. One thing I've come to learn about the internet is the resolve of people -- freakin' genius people -- to find new ways to pirate content. And, oh, also porn.
• JulianMorrison 18y ago
  AFAICT it's not just a "preview", it's a perfectly adequate way to play the music, so long as you want to play it from an internet-connected computer.
  • nihilocrat 18y ago
    You could also get around that limitation by just recording your audio output in software to file, but then you are being dishonest :) I figure the web audio is lower quality anyways, so there's incentive to pay 80 cents more.
• llimllib 18y ago
  On iTunes, you can only listen to a snippet of a song, correct? I find snippets to be worthless; I can't make a bying decision based on them. Furthermore, most non-mainstream music is not available on youtube/lastfm/seeqpod/skreemr/myspace/etc.