• dangblingus@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Nah, fuck subscriptions. If I can’t buy it once and own it, then it’s a scam on consumers. Change my view.

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      1 year ago

      I did. Look at my Spotify example. It’s literally more expensive to own the songs than to pay for Spotify.

      Unless you only want like 30 songs.

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          1 year ago

          Still cheaper, though.

          I’d rather have access to pretty much every song on demand for $4 per month and not own it, than pay per song.

          I pay $4.25 per month for Spotify. That’s $51 per year. I have access to pretty much every song, or I could buy 39 songs to own instead.

          I save more than 39 songs per month. Financially it makes no sense to buy them. Especially if you consider I get bored of some songs, and never listen to them again.

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            1 year ago

            The way I look at it, is I don’t pay to listen to the music, I pay for the convenience.

            Most music I listen to is on YouTube, where if I wanted to, I could just download it and “own” the song for free. However, in the interest of saving time, letting Spotify create playlists based on what I listen to, I just pay a monthly fee. Not to mention that I can share my playlists on multiple devices, whereas if I download music, I can’t.

            I also have a family plan with all spots filled up, so that’s 6 people listening to all their music for $20/mo CAD. Far superior to buying an album or individual songs.