Spotify

So Spotify finally launched in the United States after much anticipated wait. This is something a lot of us have been waiting for because the issues here in the US regarding streaming music is a mess. We have a few options, such as Pandora, Last.fm, Slacker and so forth for our free, streaming options. But it’s time to graduate from being cheap and get real with our streaming music options. Gone are the days of having to pay $0.99 for that one song that I want out of a whole album which really detours me from even buying music. The fact that music has gotten so bad is my excuse of why I refuse to hand over any money to most of these artists these days.

But why has it taken this long? Why did’t we have Spotify five or six years ago? Well we did. I used to be a huge fan of Yahoo! Music which had a decent collection of music for about $7/month. But the catalog wasn’t as big. We also had options with Napster and Rhapsody.

Honestly, I think people just haven’t been ready to understand the concept that the RIAA does not want anyone to own their music anymore. No one wanted to pay a month premium for music they don’t own physically or can’t touch. That’s always been the old mentality. People wanted to to be able to own that CD so they could rip it to their hardrive, make copies, whatever. It was theirs.

With the explosion of mobile, we can now still have our music when we want, how we want these days. If I want to listen to music on my computer at work, I just login to the app. At the gym? Just fire up the iPhone app. At home? You can purchase many of the speaker systems like Sonors that have these services integrated.

Now we’re at this state in the music industry where for a small premium we can have all our music when we want, how we want and where we want it’s here to stay and you can kiss your old music collection goodbye.

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