what can a poor boy do?
emusic has been lying like a pair of stretch jeans for almost 2 years now; but dammit, they still have stuff
like this for 5.99:
Howe Gelb-Alegrias
4 dollars less than amazon.
as long emusic carries stuff like this at that kinda price i will probably keep my little 24 dls around for a while; however,
24 songs a month hasn't kept me happy since 1967 when i was pulling down 26 dollars a year as a 10 year old home laborer.
thrifty choices are at a minimum.
what do you do?
use the internet as a huge used cd store, or a large gathering of buds burning copies of their records for you?
either way the artist gets zip and both have been around on a much smaller scale for many years.
if something doesn't come along soon ( and i remain employed), i may have to increase my dls or (gut shot gasp) throttle
the jones.
like this for 5.99:
Howe Gelb-Alegrias
4 dollars less than amazon.
as long emusic carries stuff like this at that kinda price i will probably keep my little 24 dls around for a while; however,
24 songs a month hasn't kept me happy since 1967 when i was pulling down 26 dollars a year as a 10 year old home laborer.
thrifty choices are at a minimum.
what do you do?
use the internet as a huge used cd store, or a large gathering of buds burning copies of their records for you?
either way the artist gets zip and both have been around on a much smaller scale for many years.
if something doesn't come along soon ( and i remain employed), i may have to increase my dls or (gut shot gasp) throttle
the jones.
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I've got no clue what I'll do next year, since most of this year I was getting my fix from the dear-departed Amie and The Lime was my plan for next year. I may just start spending a little more and getting less by buying directly from the artists/labels I like - plus lots of used CDs for the back catalogs I'm interested in.
of exploration is too high or the appeal too vague. why not let subscribers use some of this loose change
nonsense to listen to a more representative stream of a song? 1 or 2 cents a listen; i would be much more likely to pay 5.99 for
something unknown if i had better idea was i was getting.
i have 15 cents left for this month; what am i gonna do with 15 cents?
am i being naive? would that be space or cost prohibitive?
but i'll be honest, we are spending about $200 a month for private viola lessons, $100 for math and $110 for swim class - on the 11 y/o. a whole lot of dough for early stage education. 8 y/o will start the cycle in a year or two.
and college looms.
when digital music was a great, then good, then moderate proposition i could justify the expense. when its marginal and alot of work to get a little in return... pffff.
Oh. I miss my gym membership, too. A decent $30 haircut would help on the few job interviews as well, forget the $90 haircuts of yesteryear.
That's what I do. I've had a rhapsody, then a napster, and now a Mog sub. Since I spend more than 10 hours a day in front of a computer, it makes a great deal of sense for me. A this time there are at least 4 $5/month streaming music services: Rhapsoday, Napster, Mog, and Rdio. I've been a napster member for better part of a year, but I'm probably switching over to Mog because they have more social networking and recommendation aspects to their service than either Rhapsody or Napster. It's that recommendation service that I miss the most from eMusic, actually.
As to emusic's cost, I'm more than willing to pay a $2-4 premium on a few albums a year not to have to worry about using up subscription credits on the months where I just wasn't in the mood for anything. As brittleblood says, I have a ton of music I like so that plus the $5 streaming sub does me fine. Instead of 4 albums / month I buy 1 album/month and stream a lot and listen to music I own.