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> does NOT remotely justify the additional cost... The recommendation system is amazing and totally worth an additional cost to me. > You paid $10-20 one time
by madmountaingoat 3y ago
> does NOT remotely justify the additional cost...
The recommendation system is amazing and totally worth an additional cost to me.
> You paid $10-20 one time and the music was durably yours forever.
I'm old enough to have re purchased my music on three platforms: vinyl, CD, mp3. If you buy physical media you have the added cost of needing space for the stuff and needing to move it around with you. As for Mp3, they are the great but they made sharing so easy stealing music became a real problem.
- pc86 3y agoI've found half a dozen or more artists through Spotify I never would have heard of otherwise. I've seen several lives shows with those groups. I've even purchased a vinyl or two from Spotify from those marketing emails they send out based on your listening. I pay less than $20/mo to Spotify directly but they are responsible for literally thousands of dollars of my money going to artists, producers, labels, etc. over the last several years that would not have happened without them. IMO whether artists made more in the 90s selling CDs for $34 ($17 in '95 adjusted for inflation) is irrelevant, if Spotify or similar systems didn't exist today they'd be making less than they are now due to piracy.