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My experience, anecdotally, is that I haven't met a single person who bought a song that was available on grooveshark. We even share accounts so that we can create playlists for shared tastes, to save each other the trouble of looking up songs that we don't want to pay for.

Have you considered that being a working musician may be why you are willing to pay for music that is otherwise free?




There you go, you've met me! I've bought a song that was available on Grooveshark. Not sure why this would be unusual, but my reasons would be

a: you can't count on a given album remaining on grooveshark forever b: streaming is not as convenient as having a real file c: I genuinely appreciate music and want to support my favored semi-obscure musicians d: albums on GS may be incomplete or lower quality e: I don't have an issue coming up with $10 here and there

This may be related to my personality and experiences but I don't think it's related to my income sources (which are not solely music of course).

I mainly use GS to discover new music, and listen to mixes and live shows which are not for sale.


> I mainly use GS to discover new music, and listen to mixes and live shows which are not for sale.

Do you think this is a mainstream position to hold? See, I'm not an audiophile, I don't often go to concerts, and neither are anybody I know in real life. We just listen to music because it's nice. Do you think people like me actually are buying music in droves, and I'm just an outlier? Because from my perspective, people who like "semi-obscure" bands and people who want to pay for stuff not on groove shark are by far the minority.


I'm not an audiophile, I don't often go to concerts, and neither are anybody I know in real life either. I don't even spend that much on music, probably only 10-15 albums a month.

A lot of people use Youtube as their radio, and basically I see Grooveshark as doing the same thing. Why be forced to stream a video when you just want to hear the audio?


Wait, 10-15 albums a month? You buy well over 100 albums a year?

.... that's a lot of music to buy, dude. Did you mean "10-15 dollars"?


Probably was supposed to be $10-15 on albums, since it's preceded by "I don't spend that much".




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