Why is Spotify censored as hell?

[CashmereThoughts]

Both, the uncensored and censored versions are on there. U just have to look better...

Sometimes you have to do much. Like listen to both versions because their not labeled properly. I'm about to see if beats music has better organization

 

[DaveyDave]

you guys cant download a fukkin album and throw it on the iphone anymore? kids these days don't even want to have music on their fukkin hard drive let alone buy a cd

 

[TheDoc]

you guys cant download a fukkin album and throw it on the iphone anymore? kids these days don't even want to have music on their fukkin hard drive let alone buy a cd

But that's the thing. If you can stream the same damn music from the internet for free, why the hell would you want to download it or buy it? Hell, most of the people in this very place don't know what a torrent is or how to use it.

Spotify made this shyt a whole lot easier.

 

[DaveyDave]

But that's the thing. If you can stream the same damn music from the internet for free, why the hell would you want to download it or buy it? Hell, most of the people in this very place don't know what a torrent is or how to use it.

Spotify made this shyt a whole lot easier.

Because you want to continue to listen to music. Why the fukk would artists continue to make music if they don't get paid for it? The money they get from spotify etc is even less than what they used to get from traditional label deals. Eventually if everyone is getting it for "free" then the good music will pretty much die out. Hopefully the labels die out first and we end up with actual good artists releasing their own music or at least on smaller labels that are less likely to be as domineering as the majors.

I support the artists I like but I still download off rapidshare etc as much as possible for various reasons. If the music is good enough then I spend the money afterwards. I would rather have the music I like on my hard drive and at my fingertips at any given time. At least I know I have the right version of an album and I don't have to search around for a good quality version of Infamous I can just keep it in my phone 16gb is more than enough to carry around a chunk of classics as well as a bunch of new shyt I need to catch up on.

 

[ThaPrez]

Wow I didn't think of that. Half the shyt on there is edited fakkit

i know you a real nicca so take the L and keep it moving, won't no one remember tomorrow, it's all love in the coli fam.

 

[RTF]

Because you want to continue to listen to music. Why the fukk would artists continue to make music if they don't get paid for it? The money they get from spotify etc is even less than what they used to get from traditional label deals. Eventually if everyone is getting it for "free" then the good music will pretty much die out. Hopefully the labels die out first and we end up with actual good artists releasing their own music or at least on smaller labels that are less likely to be as domineering as the majors.

I support the artists I like but I still download off rapidshare etc as much as possible for various reasons. If the music is good enough then I spend the money afterwards. I would rather have the music I like on my hard drive and at my fingertips at any given time. At least I know I have the right version of an album and I don't have to search around for a good quality version of Infamous I can just keep it in my phone 16gb is more than enough to carry around a chunk of classics as well as a bunch of new shyt I need to catch up on.

Spotify pays for you to listen to the music. The labels eat off it and so do artists depending on their deal.

You end up creating your own library. If you import your existing library Spotify will have the tracks it recognises/has already on deck for you. You can then choose to have certain albums and playlists made for "offline use" which is basically a download. So i've got a lot of classics on that more.

What you are saying about ownership is true. But I have like 90% of my music library available on any device at any time. I then have an unlimited choice of what I want to listen to. It's super convenient breh.

 

[DaveyDave]

Spotify pays for you to listen to the music. The labels eat off it and so do artists depending on their deal.

You end up creating your own library. If you import your existing library Spotify will have the tracks it recognises/has already on deck for you. You can then choose to have certain albums and playlists made for "offline use" which is basically a download. So i've got a lot of classics on that more.

What you are saying about ownership is true. But I have like 90% of my music library available on any device at any time. I then have an unlimited choice of what I want to listen to. It's super convenient breh.

i used to have a 160GB ipod or whatever the highest they had was. at the time i had about 160-170GB of music so i could effectively keep my whole collection on the ipod so i could listen to anything at any given time. it was great if i had it on shuffle, it would bring up stuff i hadn't listened to for a long time or something would come on that i didn't know, a song on an album i always skipped or something i got off mates that i hadn't listened to yet.

but it had it's drawbacks. i ended up listening to my old favourites anyway. these days i just take a little bit of time once a week or so and check out what's on there. i always keep a few classics and some old favs on deck but i am constantly putting in new albums or stuff i haven't heard before. it gives me a chance to actually listen to all these albums i get, it reminds me more of back in the day where you would stick with the same couple of albums for months at a time and really gives it a chance to get into your brain.

just quickly, the money artists get off streaming systems like spotify is completely ridiculous. a quick google on spotify royalties brough this up from SPIN magazine

we repeat, that's $6,000 to $8,400 for one million streams. Streaming holdout Thom Yorke has expressed a similar worry, arguing that "artists get paid fukk all." Damon Krukowski of Galaxie 500 and Damon & Naomi wrote for Pitchfork that he stood to earn as much from 1,000 vinyl singles in 1988 as he did from 13 million streams last year.

 

[AriZona]

I'm pretty sure Eminem made around $294,000 off Spotify just for that song 'the monster'....

and thats one song.

 

[Harry B]

I found a few albums that they only had the censored version for but it's very few, I remember that they had can't ban the snowman the censored version (how the fukk did they find that ) then some months later they had the explicit version as well.

i used to have a 160GB ipod or whatever the highest they had was. at the time i had about 160-170GB of music so i could effectively keep my whole collection on the ipod so i could listen to anything at any given time. it was great if i had it on shuffle, it would bring up stuff i hadn't listened to for a long time or something would come on that i didn't know, a song on an album i always skipped or something i got off mates that i hadn't listened to yet.

but it had it's drawbacks. i ended up listening to my old favourites anyway. these days i just take a little bit of time once a week or so and check out what's on there. i always keep a few classics and some old favs on deck but i am constantly putting in new albums or stuff i haven't heard before. it gives me a chance to actually listen to all these albums i get, it reminds me more of back in the day where you would stick with the same couple of albums for months at a time and really gives it a chance to get into your brain.

just quickly, the money artists get off streaming systems like spotify is completely ridiculous. a quick google on spotify royalties brough this up from SPIN magazine

It's more than nothing though, especially for old artists and old albums.

 

[sun raw]

Holy shyt this thread just blew my mind, I had no idea that all I had to do was search for the album directly. This shyt has changed my Spotify habits, man.

 

[Harry B]

you guys cant download a fukkin album and throw it on the iphone anymore? kids these days don't even want to have music on their fukkin hard drive let alone buy a cd

I'd rather have that HDD space for photos, apps and 1080 videos.
I have some mixtapes, rare classics, The Chronic and the Beatles that's it everything else is on spotify in 320.. Why would I waste space when everything is in the cloud? Waste time downloading music and also it feels a bit better when you do it legally. Obviously not as good as buying CDs but definitely better than stealing.

 

[RTF]

i used to have a 160GB ipod or whatever the highest they had was. at the time i had about 160-170GB of music so i could effectively keep my whole collection on the ipod so i could listen to anything at any given time. it was great if i had it on shuffle, it would bring up stuff i hadn't listened to for a long time or something would come on that i didn't know, a song on an album i always skipped or something i got off mates that i hadn't listened to yet.

but it had it's drawbacks. i ended up listening to my old favourites anyway. these days i just take a little bit of time once a week or so and check out what's on there. i always keep a few classics and some old favs on deck but i am constantly putting in new albums or stuff i haven't heard before. it gives me a chance to actually listen to all these albums i get, it reminds me more of back in the day where you would stick with the same couple of albums for months at a time and really gives it a chance to get into your brain.

just quickly, the money artists get off streaming systems like spotify is completely ridiculous. a quick google on spotify royalties brough this up from SPIN magazine

Tbh I still buy vinyl off great songs and alums. An advantage of Spotify is that old ass albums I bump but never bought - Death Certificate for example (next vinyl cop) will get some pennies as a result.

Secondly, I listen to more new music as a consequence of Spotify. As they don't take up HD space they get more burn rather than getting the bushes treatment.

 

[jaydolf spitler]

Anyone else experience this bullshyt? I was trying to listen to some classic 50 (moving on up, strong enough, etc) to wash the filth animal ambition trash out my ears and everything is amended. Spotify quickly becoming bushes status

Spotify been trash, Grooveshark >>>

 

[spliz]

The explicit albums are there..u gotta sometimes search for the album specifically or scroll for the one with the parental advisory sticker..

 

[Canada Goose]

The annoying thing about spotify is random songs on albums is not on there, like "Queens get the money" off of untitled and the Cam/Bleek/Beans song off of Come home with me.

Other than that Spotify is GOAT