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Originally posted by stevyy
u dont need to be a millionaire to buy music. I bought 106 albums this year (2015).
some 30+ 2015 releases among them. I'm not a millionaire. 
When I was a teenager and also when I was younger, I bought like 1 CD per month. |
That wasn't my point. Obviously non-millionaires buy music. I was suggesting that it's much easier for her to ignore the fact that streaming is by far a more budget-conscious option to legally enjoy music since she does not have to nor will ever have to worry about money. But for most people, just because they CAN afford something doesn't mean they wouldn't rather pay less money for something that is arguably better.
There are some months where I save 3-4 albums on my Spotify account. If I were to buy them all on iTunes, that could be as much as $50, but with my Spotify Premium account, that's $10 (in fact, for me it's $0 since Spotify Premium comes as part of my cell phone package). So I save $40. On the artist's side, if I bought those albums on iTunes, the 4 artists' teams (including their labels) combined would get about $35, since iTunes is estimated to take a 30% cut of sales. Meanwhile, if I stream every track on those 4 albums as little as 20 times and we use an average of 12 tracks per album, the artists' teams earn about $5.76 off of those 4 albums (20 x 12 x 4 x $0.006 per stream). Therefore, from those 4 albums, the artists lose $29.24 from me streaming those 4 albums as opposed to buying them.
So I, the average consumer, save $40 from streaming at a trade-off of the successful label and artist losing $29.24. Sorry if preferring that option makes me "selfish" or "greedy"
