Spotify kills music

<i>In the olden days, one would walk into a music store, listen to tracks and buy an album for a very favourable price.</i><p>Ahh, no. In the <i>olden days</i> people made music together with what instruments they had on hand, music spread organically from person to person and town to town. And it was shared freely.<p>Sticking it on plastic disks and selling it like pizza pies is the historical anomaly. Spotify (and its kin) is a closer spiritual successor to the old days than album sales. That said, its different too. Technology changes things. Get with it.

Spotify doesn't kill music, it kills the idea that every song that gets a bit popular should make the performers, writers and record company very, very rich.<p>If anything, it's arrogance that killed their industry.<p>Spotify was technically feasible when people where still buying CD's. If they had started a Spotify-like service back in those days, people would gladly have payed more than $ 9,99. Now the market has changed and it's too little, too late.

haha, I see how he's saying that the value of music is dying but that's not Spotify, that's just downloading music in general. But to spread all that music freely everywhere is a blessing. It's definitely not killing it. I love all kinds of music in many different styles and genres because of music providers like spotify.

don't agree. you could say this about radio. what the writer doesn't get is that spotify is not isolated. it's one of many sources of income that operate at a scale that was unachievable before.<p>I find it funny that people still don't get why the online world is so important: because it's so unbelievably large.