Here’s the thought of the day, and basically, how YOU can help the Scooter spend his money!
Yahoo! Unlimited is the latest of those “download-as-much-as you-want” rent your music subscripton services. It claims to have one million songs (this is pretty standard now), and maybe most enticing, it has a super low rate: $4.99 per month! This is where the enticement is.
I’ve been disinterested in these services when it was $15 per month, but I would be willing to fork out $60 per year. They have a seven day trial too which I am very tempted to sign up for and give it a go. That’s the advantage for sure.
The disadvantage? I don’t own one of the many devices that can be used to play these outside of just a computer as of yet. and there’s a limited amount of these (which of course, doesn’t include the iPod!). Also, the whole rent-to-own music thing. Songs can still be found through the non-scrupulous methods easily for me, but this would be going more “legal” if you will.
Mark Cuban (you know, that guy who owned broadcast.com and now owns the Mavericks) made a great point about the whole going legal thing … the TRUE cost of going legal now might as well be $5 per month, not the ludacrious $150,000 per song that the RIAA tries to sue for (and by the way, they’ve never gotten this)
So … what do you think?
Yahoo! Unlimited Music
Here’s the thought of the day, and basically, how YOU can help the Scooter spend his money!
Yahoo! Unlimited is the latest of those “download-as-much-as you-want” rent your music subscripton services. It claims to have one million songs (this is pretty standard now), and maybe most enticing, it has a super low rate: $4.99 per month! This is where the enticement is.
I’ve been disinterested in these services when it was $15 per month, but I would be willing to fork out $60 per year. They have a seven day trial too which I am very tempted to sign up for and give it a go. That’s the advantage for sure.
The disadvantage? I don’t own one of the many devices that can be used to play these outside of just a computer as of yet. and there’s a limited amount of these (which of course, doesn’t include the iPod!). Also, the whole rent-to-own music thing. Songs can still be found through the non-scrupulous methods easily for me, but this would be going more “legal” if you will.
Mark Cuban (you know, that guy who owned broadcast.com and now owns the Mavericks) made a great point about the whole going legal thing … the TRUE cost of going legal now might as well be $5 per month, not the ludacrious $150,000 per song that the RIAA tries to sue for (and by the way, they’ve never gotten this)
So … what do you think?