My problem with current music distribution platforms is that they don't cater to a lot of the music I listen to.
Spotify may have 15 million songs, but if half of the albums I want to listen to aren't on there, what's the point in using it at all?
Pandora may be nice for digging deeper if you listen to mainstream indie rock, but if they don't have 90% of the artists you want to make a station of in their database, and the other 10% give you more terrible/mainstream music, it's just a waste of time.
Last.fm radio is great, except when multiple artists use the same name, and you get a track nothing like what you expect every few songs and have to babysit it.
iTunes and other mp3 album purchasing sites suffer from poor quality of files, and no way to check if there is terrible transcoding.
CDs and records are the best way to get what you want, but the price is steep, and if the album you want doesn't have a local distributor, a full length album can cost $45+ to import.
Spotify may have 15 million songs, but if half of the albums I want to listen to aren't on there, what's the point in using it at all?
Pandora may be nice for digging deeper if you listen to mainstream indie rock, but if they don't have 90% of the artists you want to make a station of in their database, and the other 10% give you more terrible/mainstream music, it's just a waste of time.
Last.fm radio is great, except when multiple artists use the same name, and you get a track nothing like what you expect every few songs and have to babysit it. iTunes and other mp3 album purchasing sites suffer from poor quality of files, and no way to check if there is terrible transcoding.
CDs and records are the best way to get what you want, but the price is steep, and if the album you want doesn't have a local distributor, a full length album can cost $45+ to import.
And that's just music.