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In general, I don't understand how or why Streaming is so big.
I mean, I get it, but I really don't comprehend why it's such a big business, and why it's projected to be an even bigger business moving forward.
Piracy is so huge man. From ripping songs off of soundcloud or youtube by simply copying and pasting their URL's, to a simple twitter search, or a simple sharebeast / zippyshare search on twitter, Piracy is huge, and not only huge it's easy as hell. It literally takes all of one minute to search for a link to Wale's new album on twitter right now and download it to my iTunes.
I'm a guy that still buys CD's, simply because I like collecting them. But with piracy so easy these days, I don't understand how or why people are willingly paying 10 dollars a month. Is the average fan that far behind the wave as far as illegally downloading songs and albums?
Also, I can't wrap my mind around Tidal selling itself as being this service that provides elite level quality music. Simply because, they couldn't believe that people would actually care enough about that to pay right? It looks like their plan is to court as many celebs as they can and hope that those celebs bring over with them their fans.
But like I said, I've never understood the streaming wave fully. I understand the purpose it serves, but I don't understand why has it been so successful.
I faithfully bough albums up until almost a year ago. I don't drive like that anymore so I don't really have a use for physical cds even though I prefer them. I don't really like buying from itunes. I can pay 10 for one album online or in stores or I can pay 10 for spotify and get the newest album from whatever artist I like plus a bunch of albums i used to have or some random song that may pop up in my mind i want to hear. I can follow others playlists.
I don't have time to download whole albums or single songs to put in my itunes then add to my phone. Only songs on my phone are from artists not on Spotify.
I listen to all my music on standard apple earbuds or my ipod dock...quality isn't a big deal to me as long as i can hear all the words...all that FLCA or whatever i'm reading in here is foreign to me...
only way to get me to switch is if they offered concert tickets exclusive on there...if Bey and others pull out of Spotify i'd probably download their stuff out of spite
Beyonce is wack as **** anyways. You shouldn't be buying or streaming her ********.