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0 pointsbad_user14y ago0 comments

You NEVER "own" the songs you buy. You only "own" the right of listening to those songs whenever you want.

So how is "owning" a CD any different from Spotify?

Also, the value of a song diminishes the more you listen to it. Seriously, even if you love a song, put it on repeat for a day and you probably won't listen to it again for a couple of months.

So it's not like Spotify customers will one day buy the music, unless they really have very specific needs, like being somewhere with a bad or expensive Internet connection, but if you subscribed to Spotify in the first place then I doubt that.

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technoslut14y ago

> So how is "owning" a CD any different from Spotify?

Because if you quit Spotify you lose all the music. The CD you can keep for life without having to pay $10 every month.

tacoe14y ago

If you don't think it's different, wait for publishers to pull albums from Spotify. This happens all the time. poof gone. Does this happen to your CDs?

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