I just renewed for another year. Almost canceled a few times within the last week or so, but I still manage to find stuff that beats Amazon and other MP3 seller prices such as the new The Dodos album and a long SFL. Maybe next year!
I am actually thinking about re-upping at Mordac for a month. I heard a song in a Heineken TV ad by The Asteroids Galaxy Tour that I simply MUST have, "The Golden Age". This band sounds like a cross between the Morcheeba, Bitter:Sweet & the B-52s. Mordac has that album, Fruit, for $5.88 and they can keep the 12¢. Or, I might end just buying that track from Amazon.
Already checked Guvera - they don't have it - or I would wait until April 1st.
Just not sure I want to deal with signing up and the crap you have to go through cancelling. I better listen to some samples of the rest of the songs on the album. It's my 'complete album disease". If anyone has this whole album, what do you think about it?
While of course I liked it better in the old days, just got the following for my monthly $12 on eMu:
Plus another song from the big Charlie Christian box set I am nibbling away at. DL'd w/o a hitch using the DLM. It's more than I can get for the money elsewhere, thus I'm still a subscriber. Hell of a time choosing between the Angola comp and Cartagena, guess that will be next month...
I'm really excited! I've just got my first emusic free credit!! I've received this email:
Hi,
Our eMusic Mods have provided your name as one of the members affected by the recent pricing error on our site. We apologize for the inconvenience and although the issue has been resolved, wed like to extend a gesture of good will to you in the form of a credit. We hope that you will enjoy using this credit and please know that we find these kinds of technical errors just as frustrating as you do.
Weve added $3.00 in credit, good for 30 days from todays date as long as your account is active during that time frame.
Enjoy and thanks again for your membership!
Regards,
Bruce - Customer Support
It shows that sometimes it is worth making a point. I actually received £3, which is OK. My only, very very slight grumble, is that while we are still on a single track price in the RoW, it'll leave me a few pence credit each month I'll never be able to use. Credits were better!!
Yes, I'm certainly not complaining - it'll give me a 7 track album, with 6 pence left over, as we pay 42p per track. I'll be going through the jazz recommendations tomorrow to find something appropriate
I just quit. Permanence of this status entirely dependent on emu offers to rejoin. And while I wouldn't mind receiving some of these neat rejoin offers, I can't say I'll be anxiously refreshing my inbox to see what comes in.
Jonah, I think you should seriously consider spending $5/mo of your cancel-savings towards a streaming service like Rdio. You are so diligent about seeking out full-album streaming, I think you'd find considerably justifiable value in such a subscription. I find these cheap streaming services a marvelous industry development.
Here's a question for any eMu ex-pats or anyone knowing the answer - prompted by Kez's post over there that she is quitting soon - once someone has quit will their eMu avatar so to speak still exist? Specifically will their lists continue to exist, and would they still show up by name in my Friends section, so I can access those lists? I've gotten a lot of good recs from Kez over the years and her Lists still have things I would probably like, so I'm concerned they might evaporate. Any input would be appreciated.
I'm seriously thinking about it.
The problem I run into is I go through long stretches of repetition, especially when I'm getting lots of writing done. If I listen to ten albums during that day, eight of them will be the same albums I've been listening to every day going back weeks, in the same order, and at the same time of the day. So it almost pays to buy the damn things, since I'm gonna really listen to them a lot.
For someone who listens to as much music as I do, and who really spends substantial time looking at what's coming out today, I don't get around much, y'know?
But I figure it's just a matter of time. Once I actually get onto one of these sites and start poking around, it'll be a friggin' miracle if the next window I open on my computer isn't my budget file.
I could read Nereffid's reviews after he left and took his lists with him. I just checked on garzamayer and farawayhills. I can see g's lists. Farawayhills has no lists but lots of reviews. Bklynd's lists are still there.
@johanpwll - According to our mass media Spotify should soon be in the States. You can either pay a small subscription or listen free with adverts, which is what I do. I don't listen enough to justify paying the subscription and I don't mind the odd advert to get it for nothing. Well worth looking out for when it arrives over there.
Jonah, as I wrote at emu, I don't think one should look at streaming as a substitute for purchase, but supplement. Just in terms of album "trials" to judge purchase potential, I think you'd justify the $5/mo using a streaming service. My brain keeps streaming and purchase choices in quite distinct buckets.
@BigD - My original account has kept all lists and whatnot even though I've only been an active member for a month or two over the past couple years. It doesn't seem like they ever actually purge older accounts.
@jonah - I agree with kargatron here. Every so often I wonder if I should just be streaming an album instead of buying it, but I've slowly come to the idea that they are somewhat separate functions. And I figure even if I only listened to 2 albums a month that I decided not to purchase (that I probably would have in the past) I'm coming out ahead.
I understand about them being different functions. It's just that with my current budget, they both get filed under Music, and that number isn't very big and doesn't have much elasticity. If, today, I was to begin a streaming service, it would be substituting for purchases. Down the road when money is better, then, yeah, an extra five bucks a month will be more like Research and my music purchases budget will remain unaffected. But for now, I'm looking at curtailing all purchases and simply do the streaming as a way of obtaining music.
But I get your point.
yeah, pitchfork. Really I shouldn't give him credit; it's really because I'm feeling like I don't need anymore music just now. And to be honest it may not stick. I've cancelled a few times and then cancelled the cancel before the cancellation date came around. But it is true that we all don't listen to Pitchfork enough, so that's why I mentioned him.
Well, call me crazy, but I decided to give it another month or two. I can only get two albums a month under the higher prices, but it's still slightly cheaper then the alternatives, at least in some cases... I mean, it's not like it's a lot of money, but every little bit helps I suppose. And I do have a rather long SFL list.
They really are too stoopid to live over there - again they've changed the site's graphic design, and big surprise, left a few things out - not to worry, just little things like the Label and Date Added on the Browse Lists. I have borne the thousand insults of Fortunato as best I could..........were it not for the material on my SFL's I'd be strongly tempted to sack them. After a holiday glut of boosters, basically a frenzy of downloading SFL albums before they disappeared, went up further in price, the ship sank, the booster sale ended, or all of the above, I have slowed to the lowest rate of acquisition in years and my degree of mere caring about what's available is at it's lowest ebb as well. Time to give more attention to what I already have perhaps - yeah, we've all heard that before.
I'm starting to wonder if these things are intentionally bad. They keep changing, but not improving the site, and they keep having all sorts of persistent bugs. Maybe they're searching for that point that's just good enough for the majority of people to stay, but bad enough to make shopping a headache therefore more people leave money on the table.
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Already checked Guvera - they don't have it - or I would wait until April 1st.
Just not sure I want to deal with signing up and the crap you have to go through cancelling. I better listen to some samples of the rest of the songs on the album. It's my 'complete album disease". If anyone has this whole album, what do you think about it?
Craig
Plus another song from the big Charlie Christian box set I am nibbling away at. DL'd w/o a hitch using the DLM. It's more than I can get for the money elsewhere, thus I'm still a subscriber. Hell of a time choosing between the Angola comp and Cartagena, guess that will be next month...
It shows that sometimes it is worth making a point. I actually received £3, which is OK. My only, very very slight grumble, is that while we are still on a single track price in the RoW, it'll leave me a few pence credit each month I'll never be able to use. Credits were better!!
That three bucks really helped me out this month, too. The math got real simple after that got added.
I'm seriously thinking about it.
The problem I run into is I go through long stretches of repetition, especially when I'm getting lots of writing done. If I listen to ten albums during that day, eight of them will be the same albums I've been listening to every day going back weeks, in the same order, and at the same time of the day. So it almost pays to buy the damn things, since I'm gonna really listen to them a lot.
For someone who listens to as much music as I do, and who really spends substantial time looking at what's coming out today, I don't get around much, y'know?
But I figure it's just a matter of time. Once I actually get onto one of these sites and start poking around, it'll be a friggin' miracle if the next window I open on my computer isn't my budget file.
@jonah - I agree with kargatron here. Every so often I wonder if I should just be streaming an album instead of buying it, but I've slowly come to the idea that they are somewhat separate functions. And I figure even if I only listened to 2 albums a month that I decided not to purchase (that I probably would have in the past) I'm coming out ahead.
@Thom
I understand about them being different functions. It's just that with my current budget, they both get filed under Music, and that number isn't very big and doesn't have much elasticity. If, today, I was to begin a streaming service, it would be substituting for purchases. Down the road when money is better, then, yeah, an extra five bucks a month will be more like Research and my music purchases budget will remain unaffected. But for now, I'm looking at curtailing all purchases and simply do the streaming as a way of obtaining music.
But I get your point.
(Bwoo ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha)
Craig