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Celeb News: #TidalForAll
Member Since: 8/31/2013
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Don't worry Tymps, I get what you're saying, but it all comes down to priorities. I want to pay for music because I believe as consumers we should, but others don't think they should and don't want to sacrifice like I do. Because I pay my $5 Spotify subscription fee, I don't eat lunch on Wednesdays.
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Member Since: 11/10/2009
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Originally posted by Doc
That!
Like **** outta here, I'm over here trying to save up for this damn overpriced $2,000 Kaplan MCAT prep course. Between that, tuition, clothes, and paying for food every week, what do I look like throwing $20 of the coins I have every month to hear a couple songs I could hear for free with ease? I'm sorry, music is a huge part of my soul, but when it comes to bank account, I'm not willing to hand it over for a tune or two.
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Y'all are preaching tonight. 
I don't wanna judge anybody's expenditures, but I know
my retirement fund will be better off without Tidal.
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Member Since: 3/24/2012
Posts: 15,013
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Originally posted by VDK
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This video doesn't do nothing except pass off different parts of a song as changes of quality. Sorry compression doesn't cut out instruments from a song.
They're literally false advertising and saying that you'll hear songs with different instruments, yeah it sounds clearer, but it doesn't magically make instruments appear 
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Member Since: 1/1/2014
Posts: 9,799
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Originally posted by Kamil24
$10 a MONTH though? I'm already paying monthly for a phone, car insurance, gas, food. And I have to pay criminal amounts for school, why would I waste 120$ a year for music?
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Sis you need to realize that we're arguing with 16 year old twinks that still live with their parents and have $0 expenses.
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Member Since: 1/1/2014
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i will not support the illuminati ****
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Member Since: 8/31/2013
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I literally pay 5 bucks for Spotify. Why would I go x4 that amount just bc Beyonce thinks I should?  she can go pay 20 bucks for music no thanks
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Member Since: 6/1/2010
Posts: 65,177
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Originally posted by iHype.
I make thousands a month from my job, and spend a big portion of that on unneccessary accessories, but HOW DARE I be suggested I should pay even $10, less than the price of 1 album, for millions of songs in a month? Those artists are GREEDY, even though I have the mindset myself of never paying them.
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With all due respect, I doubt you are paying for anything without an allowance. 
Stop acting y'all are all for the artists with these things when your parents are most likely paying 85% of your expenses. 
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Member Since: 9/9/2012
Posts: 59,872
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Originally posted by Big Smoke
I know youre a kid and you get all your spending money from your parents but this shouldnt be too hard to understand...
Bruh. that's a LUXURY. Maybe people have more important things to spend their money on, like food, bills, etc.
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$10 isn't the difference between living on the street and being comofrtable for 99% of people. Stop with the overexaggeration. If it cost $300 a month then I could see "people have to spend money on things to LIVE on" being a proper excuse, not $10.
& why do you bring up me being a 'kid' so much? Like does knowing you're talking to a kid give you some sorts of strange satisfaction? LMAO.
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Member Since: 8/16/2011
Posts: 19,718
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Originally posted by iHype.
I make thousands a month from my job, and spend a big portion of that on unneccessary accessories, but HOW DARE I be suggested I should pay even $10, less than the price of 1 album, for millions of songs in a month? Those artists are GREEDY, even though I have the mindset myself of never paying them.
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This is my biggest issue. Do ya'll NOT want to compensate musicians for their work.
I feel bad when I pirate, cause that's someone sweat and blood. But I also don't want to pay for every album just to LISTEN to it. Some albums have a short shelf life for me. Streaming is the middle ground. You don't have to commit to one artist/album/song, but you're also not ripping off anybody.
Now I'm not even debating Tidal vs Spotify. I'm making a case for Spotify Premium and Tidal Premium. $10 a month on either service is really a steal.
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Member Since: 8/18/2013
Posts: 3,968
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demi lovato's gonna come out of the blue uninvited with her blue avatar talking about rehab and how the nurses had blue scrubs on too
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Member Since: 1/1/2014
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Originally posted by Cap10Planet
If you have another credit card, you can do it again. Those things will always be flawed.
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Yeah, but still, you have a limited amount of credit cards. Email accounts can be freely made!
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Member Since: 9/9/2012
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Originally posted by Cap10Planet
With all due respect, I doubt you are paying for anything without an allowance.
Stop acting y'all are all for the artists with these things when your parents are most likely paying 85% of your expenses. |
I don't, or have ever had an allowance. I have my own income.
Sorry you don't have $10 for expenses. Take your anger out on your boss.
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Member Since: 8/19/2013
Posts: 26,488
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Originally posted by Lights and Waves
Sis you need to realize that we're arguing with 16 year old twinks that still live with their parents and have $0 expenses.
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$10 is not bad though
Although, I'm not sure if I'm going to keep a Tidal membership, $10 is relatively not that much money. That's two Starbucks drinks. That's about nine songs on iTunes. A large Big Mac meal with a milkshake. A T-Shirt.
Any decently responsible person can budget around to afford this
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Member Since: 5/18/2012
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Originally posted by Doc
That!
Like **** outta here, I'm over here trying to save up for this damn overpriced $2,000 Kaplan MCAT prep course. Between that, tuition, housing, phone bills, clothes, and paying for food every week, what do I look like throwing $20 of the coins I have every month to hear a couple songs I could hear for free with ease? I'm sorry, music is a huge part of my soul, but when it comes to my bank account, I'm not willing to hand it over for a tune or two.
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Exactly. The price for the looseless version is so expensive you might as well buy the album or pirate the looseless version. The regular version to too expensive to compete with Spotify $5 a month plan. Even Beats which is backed by Apple is better.
Really this is a niche product that will have to face Spotify, Google and Apple to succeed and that will hurt tidal in the end.
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Member Since: 1/1/2014
Posts: 2,656
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Wait Bey and Jay-Z are the ones behind this?
Interest diminished
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Member Since: 9/15/2012
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Originally posted by feelslikeadream
Don't worry Tymps, I get what you're saying, but it all comes down to priorities. I want to pay for music because I believe as consumers we should, but others don't think they should and don't want to sacrifice like I do. Because I pay my $5 Spotify subscription fee, I don't eat lunch on Wednesdays.
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If that's what it comes down to J get it. Really.  I just don't get how people don't feel guilty if they have the money to at least pay legally for some music but illegally download and stuff. That's really what I meant to argue against and I got derailed and just started saying things and they didn't hold up. I'm sorry
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Member Since: 10/3/2010
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These fools up in here saying "I'm sorry you don't have $10, I do! LOL"
That's not the point.
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Member Since: 5/18/2012
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Originally posted by jpow
$10 is not bad though
Although, I'm not sure if I'm going to keep a Tidal membership, $10 is relatively not that much money. That's two Starbucks drinks. That's about nine songs on iTunes. A large Big Mac meal with a milkshake. A T-Shirt.
Any decently responsible person can budget around to afford this |
But what's the point when you have Spotify which is cheaper? You have to remember those things you listed are luxuries.
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Member Since: 3/15/2013
Posts: 25,228
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Originally posted by Cap10Planet
Lol @ some of you telling people how to spend their money and doing this classism thing. Y'all are so petty.
There will be naysayers with new gimmicks. No one is entitled to support this product just because Jay-Z, Beyoncé and the like are behind it and practically telling you that you should. If people want to spend $20 per month on a gym membership ( ) and decide that a pay music streaming service isn't important to them, that is their right. The nerve. |
!! I can't at these people.
They're only behind it because their favs are behind it. I love Bey and even I think this is such a stupid move.
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Member Since: 12/4/2010
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Originally posted by suneclipse121
The same way people can manage a Hulu Plus or Netflix subscription. |
Perhaps because there's actually an incentive to use Hulu or Netflix?
Personally, I don't watch enough TV to pay for Hulu, so if a show I want to watch isn't available for free to watch on their website, I will scour the web for it or give up and keep it pumping. But I like my movies, and Netflix makes it easy to watch with good quality, something that the average person cares about. Movies and shows are far harder to find for free online, and even when you do find it, the quality can very often not be great and the files take up a huge amount of space.
For most people, as long as the quality isn't absolute trash, no one cares about the quality of the music file. So when you can easily listen to it on YouTube or snatch a quick download or play it on Spotify for free, there's really no incentive for this Tidal mess.
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