argue ur point all u want. if it's a free kanye west album, and apple can secure a digital exclusive release at least 3-4 weeks prior to any physical copies landing in stores (essentially giving themselves a 2 week advance window on the torrent sites), then guess what? people are headed to apple to download that fukker.
RUMOR:KANYE NOT HAPPY WITH TIDAL [UPDATED]
- Thread starter The_King_of_Everything
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argue ur point all u want. if it's a free kanye west album, and apple can secure a digital exclusive release at least 3-4 weeks prior to any physical copies landing in stores (essentially giving themselves a 2 week advance window on the torrent sites), then guess what? people are headed to apple to download that fukker.
Word!
JetLife
/ SOHH /
Spotify / Tidal / Beats and all the other streaming services don't cater to the typical coli poster. Most of us here grew up downloading and picking our music specifically .. so finding download links, managing our downloads, and manually syncing across devices isn't a huge issue for us.
Streaming services are for a generation below us who are used to growing up on services like netflix and having the convenience of 95% of music easily streamable from any device and all you need is your login. They want to click a search button and be able to listen to Drake, then Haim, then Fetty Wap, then Ed Sheeran.
They don't want to have to go to audiomack, then atrilli, then torrents, then whatever the equivalent of these sites are for rock, pop, etc. The growth numbers of these services show streaming is the new "radio" and might even cannibalize itunes store sales also.
I think this is why Jay-Z's rollout of Tidal didn't work like he planned. He marketed it like it was the early 2000s and he can just name drop something like Belvedere, Roc-A-Wear, etc. and people would ride the wave, but the younger generation don't buy into him like that and the older generation are pretty grounded in never paying for music since they all download shyt.
Yeah, this is what it really is. I'm not into streaming cuh I'm from the "torrent era" and I purchase physicals, and I think the generations below want that quick easy access to material. Searching for obscure material via torrents is work in its self! You have to have patience, which the younger generation, from the looks of things, just don't have.
DonKnock
KPJ Gonna Save Us
@ Kanye getting over $260 Million for the rights to ONE album. I love everything Kanye, but Apple ain't making that kind lopsided deal. If Kanye is getting those kind of numbers he's gotta be doing some sort of creative directing for them as well
Thingsfallapart
Superstar
LOL @ nikkas believing Apple paid Kanye double his net worth for his next album when his last album flopped and all his singles for this upcoming album have either outright tanked or under-preformed. 
Bernie Madoff
Banned
You guys do realize you can save music offline right? It'd no different then spending money on a rapidshare pass...
Breh nobody wants to have friction when it comes to consuming the content they want.
It was just easier and frankly to do that. You would have albums weeks in advance all of the time. Let's say Graduation, it dropped on the internet a good 3 weeks before retail and it was normal. You had cats having albums like months in advance - TI's King or Lupe's F&L for example. The advantage of being an illegal downloader was massive. If you wanted the ATCQ discography, you could literally type that into Google + .rar and you would have a link. Or you could use a torrent and have it just do it in the background. The only other way would be to drop £30 in the app store or £40 for CD's.
In say.. 2007 or 2004.. if you really loved music (tv & movies) you would cop premium passes to Rapidshare, MU etc. to download multiple files quickly to get an artists discography. If you were about that life you would pay extra for faster broadband. And no matter what you did, you would expect to listen to your music on 2 devices max. and a car.
But the game has changed. Albums only leak 2-3 days before they hit retail. We have 5-6 devices we expect to have our whole music collection. I don't think Streaming is a generational thing. It's an evolutionary thing. I've been pirating music since '99. I've largely stopped. Because that £9.99 is less to me than all that time wasted downloading albums and mixtapes. I stream 95% of my music. Whether it's Spotify (discography stuff), soundcloud (indie, new, unsigned), DatPiff (mixtapes not on Spotify) or YouTube (the rest). Downloading music is some old school shyt I have to do if i'm desperate.
I agree Jay Z's marketing technique is old school.
Ineedmoney504
SOHH ICEY...WE EATIN
I can't fukk wit streaming services until Mixtapes are all on there
Yea I signed up for Spotify and realized they don't have more than half the shyt I like and listen to nowadays which is on mixtapes/street albums. I like the older albums and everything that are available on there but fukk streaming through my phone and car. shyt kills your data. I just dont see the benefits in my situation. I'll cancel my subscription after 3 months.
The_King_of_Everything
Yeah.
Yeah let's act like Kanye west don't have name recognition. Let's act like he ain't sell out those Adidas shoesLOL @ nikkas believing Apple paid Kanye double his net worth for his next album when his last album flopped and all his singles for this upcoming album have either outright tanked or under-preformed.
The_King_of_Everything
Yeah.
Just realized Kanyes birthday is Monday on the same day as apple conference 
Kanye wants to be in bed with Apple so bad (and be the next Steve Jobs) he would give that shyt away to them for practically free.
DatPiff has a streaming app that let's you put stuff offline.... but if you don't have the data that's your bigger problem