[Jason Dunn]

Originally Posted by David Tucker

I will never understand this line of thought but as long as I have subscription available I will be able to happily know that over the course of my life I'll have spent thousands upon thousands of dollars less than anyone who buys an equivalent amount of music.

Yeah, I understand where you're coming from - the problem for me is that if I were ever to stop paying that fee, all the music I had would stop working...and having to re-download all that music again, and likely correct the meta-data to my liking (with genres and such) would be a HUGE pain. When I did have a Napster account, I kept all the Napster music in a separate music folder because I didn't consider it "really mine" and didn't want it to pollute my collection. But I'm also the guy with over 800 CDs and over 17,000 songs, so I know I'm not average.

[Jason Dunn]

Originally Posted by David Tucker

I will never understand this line of thought but as long as I have subscription available I will be able to happily know that over the course of my life I'll have spent thousands upon thousands of dollars less than anyone who buys an equivalent amount of music.

Yeah, I understand where you're coming from - the problem for me is that if I were ever to stop paying that fee, all the music I had would stop working...and having to re-download all that music again, and likely correct the meta-data to my liking (with genres and such) would be a HUGE pain. When I did have a Napster account, I kept all the Napster music in a separate music folder because I didn't consider it "really mine" and didn't want it to pollute my collection. But I'm also the guy with over 800 CDs and over 17,000 songs, so I know I'm not average.

[David Tucker]

Yeah, see, for me...I've owned about 20 CDs my whole life. So I eitherhave to spend a lot of money to get a good collection or just listen tothe radio. Subscription works for me.

[Jason Dunn]

Originally Posted by David Tucker

Yeah, see, for me...I've owned about 20 CDs my whole life.

You are 100% the right type of person for subscription music!

[Chris Gohlke]

I wonder if statistically it is a generational thing. Those of us whose first taste of musics came from buying CD's/Tapes/Albums/8-tracks may feel more of a need to OWN the music whereas those that have grown up in the download era don't quite think of it that way. I like the idea of saving money over the long term, but I'm afraid of the idea that if I went that route and 10 years out they changed the rules of the game to a subscription model I was no longer comfortable with, or discontinued it altogether.

[Jason Dunn]

Originally Posted by Chris Gohlke

I wonder if statistically it is a generational thing. Those of us whose first taste of musics came from buying...

Oh yeah, absolutely it's a generational thing. Our concept of music ownership is very different from people younger than us. In fact, I'd say that someone ten years younger than me (or a bit more) would very likely have a concept of music ownership that involves P2P networks and not actually buying music. They grew up getting music for free, all digitally. Paying $15 a month is as close as they can come to free music if they want to be legit.