I don't mind paying for Waterfall because it's Neal's service and it's getting the money to him/them directly rather than going through Apple or Spotify or whatever. I buy the hard copies of all his and MP's, Haken....any band I like's music as well just to try and get them some $$. I love having the Waterfall app and having all the music right there at the touch of a finger. I pay $6.99 a month so $83.88 a year and I think it's completely worth it. It saves the hassle of downloading CD's then transferring that to my phone and so on and it supports my favorite musicians.
You think it's worth $83.88 to save a couple of hours of ripping CDs you already own to your phone? Not sure I follow that logic.
Supporting the artist is fine, it's your money. I'm just not into paying for stuff I already have.
Agreed, especially if you already have the CDs ripped to the computer/iPod/phone. I would never subscribe to a Dream Theater app as I have most of their catalog, and what I don't have is mostly non-essential stuff I wouldn't listen to much anyway, and new stuff I would just buy if I wanted to listen to it.
It works for bands with large catalogs, too, such as jam bands if you're into them, like Phish and Umphrey's McGee where you might not own a copy of every show they have officially released, which also might not be available on regular streaming services.
However, to me, if you just have access to all that music with something like Spotify, it is easy to listen to something, then move on to the next, and not go back to anything, or rarely do so. So I still purchase music when I find something I really enjoy. I've found that the more music I hear, the less impressed I am with anything, especially 21st century music in the rock, metal, pop and related areas. A lot of stuff has little staying power to me, so it's nice to not commit $$$ for music I'm going to listen to a few times then throw on the shelf for perpetuity. Once in a while, however, I find something that pops out to me, so I buy that, which is rare these days. For example, I haven't bought the last 2 Haken albums because the first one didn't do much for me after a few listens and I never bothered with the most recent as I've read they're like companion albums. Without streaming, I would have bought two albums I don't like very much, which I've done all too often throughout my life. Sure I would likely have given them a few more tries if I did buy them, but I've heard enough music at this point that I basically know what I like, and Haken took a left turn I wasn't into (they were already losing me after The Mountain, but I digress..)
But I'm not into people buying a streaming subscription like Spotify and never buying anything else to support the artists. I like the idea of buying the CD then mostly listening on Spotify to keep supporting the artist, which is more than if I listened exclusively on my iPod.
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