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Originally Posted by David Tucker
If you don't want to listen to new music then subscription is worthless to you.
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I don't necessarily agree with that. I dislike a grate majority of today's music, but the real selling point for me with a subscription is that I can download thousands of songs without paying out the ear. I can listen to a song in full (something that eMusic and other purchase sites don't allow, for good reason), and then decide to purchase it if I really like it. A subcription costs me what, $10-$15 a month? I'm downloading many orders of magnitude than that a week. An a la carte service simly isn't economically feasible for me.
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people simply don't understand the concept of subscription.
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I think that's the real problem. People hear "unlimited music" and become extatic. They hear "but it dies after you cancel", and become significantly less so. Sure, that's a problem, and I wish there was some way to future-proof subscription DRM (besides getting rid of the DRM wrapper itself), but it is still an amazing deal. If I purchase DRM'd tracks from an a la carte service, I'm similarly locked in. But that's an argument for another day.
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