Music streaming services, charges are TOO CHEAP? Agree or disagree?

[Harry B]

I agree, it’s the one streaming service I’d be willing pay like $25/month for, but I’m old and still value music. I remember buying $30-80 worth of music every 4-8 weeks so $25/month for access to everything in their library would be nothing to me

You should donate to your favorite artists then

 

[dora_da_destroyer]

You should donate to your favorite artists then

Sure, tell me where to mail MJB, Sade, Erykah Badu, ATCQ, OutKast, Kendrick etc $15/month

 

[Harry B]

Sure, tell me where to mail MJB, Sade, Erykah Badu, ATCQ, OutKast, Kendrick etc $15/month

They probably all have charities.

You can also get the Tidal 25 buck option, the services still have to pay out 70 % of the fees.
In fact, get two accounts and give the other to me.

 

[dora_da_destroyer]

They probably all have charities.

You can also get the Tidal 25 buck option, the services still have to pay out 70 % of the fees.
In fact, get two accounts and give the other to me.

Nope - I dgaf about their charity, we were talking about supporting them. The people who make the soundtrack to my life, tell me where to Zelle them.

No, I’m fine with Spotify along with all the playlists I’ve built on there over the past 13 years

 

[Harry B]

Nope - I dgaf about their charity, we were talking about supporting them. The people who make the soundtrack to my life, tell me where to Zelle them.

No, I’m fine with Spotify along with all the playlists I’ve built on there over the past 13 years

You can transfer your playlists very easily, but you still choose to use the service that pays artists the least

Let's end this discuss, right there.

 

[dora_da_destroyer]

You can transfer your playlists very easily, but you still choose to use the service that pays artists the least

Let's end this discuss, right there.

First mover advantage

And it’s not Spotify, it’s what the record labels negotiated with the service

 

[Doin2Much Williams]

Dont care if they charge 15 dollars or 15 cents



If they can, at any moments notice (or without reason), pull an album or catalogue from their services… i dont like that uncertainty.



This is why i dont stream.



And own all my music.



Piece of mind >>>>








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[Ghostface Trillah]

9.99 a month for almost every artist to ever record a song in the history of modern music is a steal for everyone except the artists who needs the money from music to survive. Which is why we see a lot of these artists now doing a few songs/album to get hot then doing everything but music to make money.

If you’re not a legacy artist or a mega star you can’t do anything with that streaming money

 

[ShaDynasty]

People would pay more, but I would be surprised if streaming services gave that to artists rather than shareholders.

 

[Cladyclad]

Of course, but the price everyone sets is the price that maximizes profit. They are running completely oligopolistic capitalistic profit maximization schemes and still crying about "oh devalue" this and that.
As soon as they are big enough they are charging you and arm and leg to see them perform, but until then, they are whining.

People spend 132 bucks or more per year on listening to music. I recall that I saw some report stating that the average consumer spends more than previously. That's without considering the fact that they jacked up the prices on concerts and merch to the another planet. You had some power users like the guy above, and you had mad three cds per year people. But obviously, the average consumer also listens to more artists than previously. But not as much to one artist. I guess that's the devaluing aspect of it. It wouldn't matter if I spent 100 or 10, the fact that I can listen to all the music in the world without spending millions to buy all the music it devalues it.

Me spending 30 instead would just mean more money to the owners of the music and Spotify, would it change the intrinsic value of the music?

I think this just old head talk

newer artists don’t care or know that they should care


like at Griselda them dudes got like over 50 projects in the last 4 years lol

 

[Harry B]

I think this just old head talk

newer artists don’t care or know that they should care


like at Griselda them dudes got like over 50 projects in the last 4 years lol

It really is old heads, usually old heads with podcasts that got retired by the game and act like it was their choice

 

[The Intergalactic Koala]

it has devalued music, since people would rather play a monthly or annual price for millions of songs.

It isn't cheap per se, but the labels are, since they still get the bulk of the profit, and not the artists.

Or it was too expensive to begin with.

Artists are funny people, they always act like they’re not the most capitalistic people out there cause they run around with Bernie shirts.

Go ahead and remove your shyt from streaming services and sell it for whatever price you want. No one is stopping you if you own your shyt.

As streaming gang, I get the best fulfillment through Bandcamp. Own the music and the artists get a good portion of the buck.

 

[Silver Surfer]

30cent a day...

 

[re'up]

Think that streaming for music is much better experience overall compared with streaming for TV and movies. Esp. since 2022, I am pretty often irritated with streaming, Hulu/HBO, can't find this, have to pay for that, whatever.

but, that's partially because of my MP3 and cd collection, probably, which is all on ITunes, but Apple Music for me at 38 works pretty well. I don't listen to as much new, and am just as likely to listen to an old Donell Jones album as stream the new 42 Dugg single. it's not the all encompassing need it once was when I was 15.

can check the newer releases and singles, from YO Gotti's new tape to The IDOL sdtk without having to download a bunch of weird shyt like I did for tapes or spent $15.99 for the CD.

Read an interesting section of a book, about how Napster really started this idea that music should be free. And I would say that the music industry never really recovered from Napster and peer to peer file sharing. but, they adapted those same techniques.

 

[Flav]

I used to buy about 2 to 4 tapes and CDs a month based off the commercials Rap City or The Source magazine would promote. I feel like I spent enough on Vinyl, Tapes and Cds I shouldn’t have to pay more. I’m basically listening to everything I already bought back in the days and don’t have the albums anymore.

I might just go ahead and download my Spotify 90s playlist and drop it all together before the price skyrocket.