What’s the deal? Are people just going to continue to pay a never-ending rising cost of streaming? Surely this model can’t keep up, and I highly doubt people are listening to essentially the diverse catalog of music for that price. I’m willing to bet most people listen to the equivalent of a couple CDs in a month.
Are you guys just gonna keep paying for YouTube music as the price tops to $30 a month? Seems like every week these clowns are raising their prices.
I still have an mp3 collection. Mainly because I like a lot of obscure artists you can’t find in streaming services and I despise algorithm recommendations. I never liked fucking youtube because they always would put a lot of useless trash in the recommendations. So I shut down recommendation history, I stay away from their music services and I’m never giving them a single penny. I still buy CD’s whenever I can, hey at least a CD is proof I’m listening to a real musician and not some AI slop.
For the most part I’ve always hated music streaming services because they feel very insular. There is no sense of fandom and community by design. I knew shit was going to get bad when you tube shut down the comments on music tracks. These “services” are designed to wall in the user and keep them hooked to the fucking algorithm; That betrays the spirit of musical community I was used to. I feel tech companies ruined the joy of collecting music and I am glad piracy is coming back. All of these streaming services can fuck off.