It’s a free ride baby, saddle up.

Spotify hassle the free-riders into converting over to the premium account. Just 5% pay, it’s a free ride baby, saddle up. The music stores has been a victim of a hostile takeover, the kids are running the show now and they share in amazing speed and massive contents of music are being copied, given away for free. But dear music biz bosses, you men on the high horses and with the "fat of the fans"; when we use Spotify, downloading decreases, we download less music and this is the way to go. Nobody actually appreciate piracy, fully, but we can appreciate a good platform that stream music. The consumers no longer see the value in the product, the CDs, but against all odds the Vinyl has emerged from the deep end and are again being loved. If you wake up and smell the Maple Nut Crunch you will find a way to walk with the consumers. What we want is easy accessible music, user friendly platforms and the end of greed. The digital age is the French Revolution, the end of the Romanov imperial dynasty, the fall of Rome and the end of slavery. It’s a naïve "power to the people" kind of change or at least an attempt. And all this is the symbol of the fallen scepter of the music industry.

But whatever the future holds, the middle ground of free and the $$ is where we must meet.

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