justw wrote:
mistrijah wrote:
madcow1515 wrote:
I have to say that considering how active the 2012 Reissues thread is, I do find it a little odd that there doesn't seem to be much curiosity about what's popping up on Spotify, particularly with the albums that aren't out yet.
i think judging from some of the reactions i am getting a lot of them don't know what it's about, someone just called it a paid for radio service which it is not:-) think we are dealing with a load of dinosaurs here, if Zappa was alive he would have embraced itunes and spotify years ago.
It is a pay for listening internet radio station. It subverts your abilltiy to freely listen to music. If you stop paying are you still able to listen? I think not. The people who shun those services do so out of informed choice, not blind ignorance which is what you implied. I, for one, prefer to purchase music on whatever medium I can afford and listen to it as much as I want without having to pay for it ever again. I only spend money to upgrade equipment or purchase more LPs or CDs. If I want to listen to music on my portable player I rip them from CD to flac and away I go. No loss, no compression, no change to the music, no more $ spent, no WiFi needed. A "pay per listen" model is designed to extract more money from people. It may be the way everything is headed but that doesn't make it better or right.
Those of us to whom you refer to as "dinosaurs" truly grew up with this technology. We understand where it came from, how it was made, and how it should be. Newbies only understand "how it is". Do you even know who Dennis Richie was? Now there's a dinosaur! How 'bout Bill Gates, he and I dropped out of different colleges together. Steve Jobs? He was no spring chicken.
But, I digress. Please explain how an internet service that you pay monthly for the privledge of listening to music is not a pay for service internet radio station???
The only one of those services that was around for long that wasn't was Napster and it's long gone.
~w
each to there own, but i refuse to buy any more pieces of plastic, i already own over 2'000 records (vinyl) and quite a few hundred CD's, i don't see the need for ME to buy them anymore, if something special comes out on vinyl i will buy it but not on CD..
as far as i am concerned a radio station is where they choose what to play and i listen without choice, but on spotify i choose the artist and then which album of theres i want to listen to, i don't have any wi\fi issues and can always log in an listen, but if i had connection problems then i can listen to what i want in offline mode...
as far as the price is concerned i only pay £5 a month which comes to £60 per year, which is around $94 per year, now how much will 60 plus CD's cost me again?
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just name it Zappa on and off sportify 
on Mp3 Thank Fuck