Just as we counted Spotify down for the count with Apple beating em through Icloud, just like Scarface or Michael Myers in Halloween, they raise back up. Spotify have signed a licensing deal with Uuniversal, and will soon have the labels signed up so they can stream all releases.
Now you decide.
Rental or purchasing? Icloud or Time Warner Cable? Do you want to own your music? What if you go broke?
Do you want to rent or own????
That is a central but not the only central question in Spotify VS Itunes.
There is this one as well: access to every single release every single week and, if you should choose, you can buy em as well. Or the Itunes you know and love so that all those songs you love, all that music belongs to you. You can leave it to your loved ones when you croak.
It is a little tricky.
A true music fan wants to own their own music, a fanatic like me has trouble worrying that it might not actually be mine.
But a true fan like me salivates at the thought of having access to EVERYTHING IN THE WORLD. I don't know where I'd begin. I don't know.
On the other hand, why would an average fan, who buys maybe 30 tracks a year max, want to subscribe to a music club for even ten bucks a month. there is no up for them.
Me? I think I'd go with both but i am in the minority.
One thing is certain, this is much bigger than Cassettes versus Albums; this is big time business battlings.
The bloke in the picture co-owns Spotify.