sparklecherryzDisney Raises Prices for Streaming Services by as Much as 27% - Lemmy.world
CliffjumperOh look, another one.
YouTube: premium is increasing
Spotify: we’re increasing your sub
Bank: we’re increasing your mortgage
Supermarket: we’re increasing your food spend
Car insurance: we’re increasing your premium
Household bills: we’re increasing water, gas and electricity
Broadband: we’re increasing your fees
Cellphone: your contract renewal is higher than last year
Salary: fuck you, peasant
Bank Of England: Just stop spending
Disney: Hi …
ffolkesTo be fair, Spotify might suck for artists, but for users it’s a good value in my opinion, and the price was $9.99 for like 10 years. I don’t begrudge them a small increase. In fact, I wish all the price increases we’ve seen lately would be so modest.
Oh no, I completely agree and I continue with it because I really like the service. It just so happens that it’s on top of a whole raft of other increases, some of which are absolutely not justified.
Why are you bootlicking? Stop encouraging corporations to milk money from consumers because “it’s not as bad as the others”.
Especially when they’ve a) acknowledged that none of their money is actually going to the artists and b) they’re in a piracy subreddit. People gotta stop shilling for music streaming services here, it’s indefensible on every level.
Some of us old timers remember the bad old days when a CD with two songs you actually liked cost $17.99 (about $35-40 in today’s dollars). As bad as Spotify and others are it sure beats what we had before.
Yes, let’s just pretend digital downloads haven’t existed for longer than streaming services and solve this problem completely.
Some of us don’t want to steal. I get that you’re mostly stealing from large corporations, but don’t be surprised if less and less original music gets made if you refuse to so much as pay a small subscription fee for infinite music. Many bands have said that they have stopped making new albums because there just isn’t enough money in the business to sustain all of the time and effort it requires anymore. The problem isn’t solved by downloading all of your music illegally, it is just shifted to a different problem
I go to live shows and buy merch literally every week. I generally support artists directly whenever possible. I don’t need to give these giant corpos money while pretending more than pennies go to the artists.
GanbatA Spotify increase is only justified if the entire amount goes to artists.
Imo paying a monthly fee and not getting something in return you can still use if you fall on bad times in such uncertain times as today makes zero sense. Rent more than doubled in the past 3 years and my wage actually went down, there is zero oppertunity to build a better life and now every silly business wants me to increase my monthly expenses by another 5/20 bucks per service per month, compared to an era where we just bought shit for cheap from the discount bin when we didn’t make a lot of money.
I’ll “ARRRR!” the whole way until they behave and life becomes affordable again.
I stopped working out because i can’t afford the food needed to properly benefit from a workout. Whey used to be a cheap way to get protëine and it went up 350% in the past 2 years. Eggs, chicken, peanuts, vegetables all doubled in price. I’m left eating a roll of cheap cookies just to get some food in me half the time.