21-10-2016, 07:14
Oceansoul Wrote:I don't see why listening to music on say YouTube means I can't appreciate buying CD's anymore, though that is just my way of thinking.Good point. In fact I could list quite a number of CDs I have bought, which I would probably not have bought were it not for the fact that I was able to listen to part or all of the music first on Spotify or Youtube. In that sense, they serve much the same function for me as the old way of sitting and listening to an album in the record store before deciding whether to buy it - except that in many cases the stores these days don't even carry the albums I would want to buy.
@CH: I can't help thinking you missed the whole point of my post. It was not just to say that artists get a tiny amount in royalties from streaming, which is well known and which no one would dispute. I was merely debunking a couple of popular misconceptions: streaming is NOT killing off radio, and it is NOT killing off the music industry.