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[–] Fake4000@lemmy.world 32 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Spotify used to be good but now they charge you the price of buying an album outright.

Might as well buy an album monthly and actually own it.

[–] raptir 33 points 1 year ago (3 children)

That works if you listen to just a small number of albums, but I average about 15 unique albums per month and probably 60 per year.

[–] snowe@programming.dev 7 points 1 year ago

lol yeah I listened to over 150 new genres and thousands of artists this past year (according to Spotify wrapped), buying all those albums would be thousands of dollars if not tens of thousands.

[–] raptir 4 points 1 year ago

Just to add, I do buy albums but more as a way to support the artists. Tidal is for convenience.

[–] Aatube@kbin.social 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

£10 = the price of every single album you listen to in a month, combined?

[–] Copernican@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago

Yup. When I was kid and teen in the the CD era, I was buying 2 or 3 CDs a month for at least 10 to 20 bucks a pop. Or I would temporarily have my parents sign up for something like the BMG record club when there was a good promo where I could get 10 albums for cheap and then cancel. Fast forward to today and I can get unlimited access to all music for cheaper than a single album per month back in 2005. I don't know how these economics can make sense even if you factor out physical media and physical distribution.

[–] narc0tic_bird@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It was 9.99 for many years and now it's 10.99, a ~10% increase. Not sure how a single, small price increase in years turns something from good to bad. Sure, there are many reasons to dislike Spotify, but pricing?