Do you pay to download music?

[Anonymous]

Downloading free music is easy, you just copy the link from YouTube and go to an MP3 converter site and put the link in the bar and run it through, then you can just download it and I've been doing this my whole life even as a kid and I wonder if people still pay to download music, do you? Or do you use those free music apps like soundcloud?

[WhiteSteve]

I have Apple Music these days. My iTunes catalogue…. that’s something else😂 I ripped most of my music that pre-dates like 2002 off of Napster. Now I actually play hockey with the Napster founders’ cousin who was like their CFO or something, he’s always paying for drinks at the bar with Napster money, lmao, dude has millions. Looks borderline homeless too, lmfao, always drinking Fireball whiskey straight from the bottle💀💀💀

Anyway, I spent hours and hours and hours not going to my college classes and just trying to rip every song imaginable on my roommate’s fancy computer while he was out for the day. I think I have around 2,700 songs or something like that. Some are ripped from old CDs I already had, but a lot came from Napster or LimeWire before the government shut them down, haha

[Asker]

Before I read it all, you said you have apple music, let me guess, you pay for music? 😂

[WhiteSteve]

Lmao, I’m saying that I do pay for Apple Music, I don’t necessarily download music but I stream it. But the meat of it is another WhiteSteve’s Story Hour tale of when I would rip music back in the late 90s/early 2000s

[Asker]

I knew it, that's crazy Bro, hold up how much you blow on music? 💀

[WhiteSteve]

It’s only $10 a month, man, I definitely can swing that…. plus I owe them for all the music I ripped off when I was younger😂

[Asker]

Money stacks up, 120 dollars a year, you can put that towards gas lol

[WhiteSteve]

I drive an SUV, that’s like a day and a half of gas, I’m good😂 I hear ya though, you’re right. But it’s real easy to just “Hey Siri” my music while I’m driving with Apple Music

[Asker]

That is a privileged I am not aware of how comfortable it is cause I go hey android and that shit don't reply back

[WhiteSteve]

Lmao, dang, no voice commands for Android? I barely know how to work my iPhone, lmao, I’m just not up on all this technology. I only got a cellphone back in like ‘07 because chicks were starting to look at me funny when I didn’t have one when I tried to get their number😂

[NathanDavis]

I've never ever paid for a download or music app

it's just free out there...

also... a lof of the music I really like is not even that mainstream so I would not even find it on the popular trendy ways of today, lol

[Asker]

And even so you can always listen to it on YouTube lol

[NathanDavis]

yes... the Youtube app music, works like a charm

[Asker]

I gotta watch ads tho

[NathanDavis]

my browser blocks them by default...

[Asker]

I wish lol

[NathanDavis]

Brave

[Nikki1989]

@ChicoFromThe305 Who watches ads on YouTube?

[Asker]

I do, I refuse to give YouTube my money, their restrictions aren't worth a cent

[Nikki1989]

Have you never heard of adblockers?

And bands don't spend 1000s on making albums so you can listen to them for free.

[Asker]

I can download anything for free so it's all good but this ad blocker stuff is knew info to me 🤔

[Asker]

New*

[IslaTheWitch]

As I want to be paid for my work I pay for work of others. I pay for YouTube and Spotify subscription. If I want to have my own copy I buy albums on Amazon.

I listen to the music all the time. Or listen to podcasts... mostly work stuff. Or watching conferences videos or interesting solutions to my work, or just movies. Sometimes silly cats shorts :D

[Asker]

Well isla that's very noble of you indeed lol

[IslaTheWitch]

Nah... I work in software industry. I don't even count the times my solutions were stolen, lol

[Asker]

Who stole your solutions and Why?

[IslaTheWitch]

because they wanted/needed to and found the way :D

[Asker]

I don't understand lol

[IslaTheWitch]

Sometimes people look for a specific solution. Like for a music. Can obtain it legally, the official way, paying for someone's effort or by "finding a way, to get it" without paying.

My solutions aren't big thing. But useful and many people look for them. I require only covering my coffee as a payment. But they still look for a way to get it for free, lol

It's fascinating :D

[MemeSupreme]

who the fuck pays to download music

like when i was a kid i remember stealing some kids ipods or mp3 player thing that looks like a tampon and i had to go to like the public library to download shit onto it

[Asker]

You little thief 😂

Admitting to your crimes memey?

Either ways, people with Apple pay 💀

[MemeSupreme]

but can't they just use spotify or somethin

and no they just uh... unknowingly donated their mp3 player 😈

[Asker]

They have a membership thing, spotify isn't free anymore I don't think lol

[Asker]

Pff yea okay like I haven't used that one before 😂

[MemeSupreme]

you can say you're from a school and you get it for free i think. ik i got something like that or maybe for cheaper

i don't remember lol

[Asker]

Really? Since when, that gotta be some new genz shit no cap cause that's crazy lol

[MemeSupreme]

yeah spotify is 5 dollars cheaper if you say you're from a school

[Asker]

I'll stick to my illegal downloads I think 😂

[exitseven]

No, I get a lot of stuff from You Tube. And I use an application called Audacity that records live music and lets you rip them into an MP3

[Asker]

Yep that's good, never pay for music 😂

[exitseven]

I work in IT. I dont pay for anything.

[Asker]

So you freeloading out here 😂

[LiamJHayden]

I buy CD's or CD quality or higher downloads, from the artists themselves when possible.

[Asker]

They still make CDs?

[LiamJHayden]

Yes. I like to support the artists I like because in general they are not super popular.

[Asker]

Well that's good bro, I didn't know CDs were still being made tho

[Nikki1989]

@ChicoFromThe305. Are you serious? Forget CDs, I am still buying records.

[Asker]

Nikki you diskhead 😆

[Nikki1989]

I have never downloaded anything in my entire life. If I like something, I will buy the physical product. I am not that cheap and I will always support the artists.

[Anonymous]

I do both - so the people arguing its cheap to download are d*** asf cause people don’t do that just bcz they are “cheap”. I have spotify and i have had apple music and half the time they actually don’t have half the music that the artist actually released. Hence i get both if the song is officially dropped ill hear it through spotify but if its not official or if its a cover that someone else recorded then you’ll definitely need a music converter…

[Sonorous]

nope 🤣

[Asker]

That's Good, paying for music sucks

[Sonorous]

Exactly! My preferences is flacc files but I convert them into mp3 with an automated powershell script. I've done the abx tests & I can't tell the difference in quality when converted from the original file.

[laly520]

never payed to do so

[Asker]

Don't see why anyone would

[Miah04]

Noppers

[Asker]

Never seen someone stretch no so much, you were the one to remind the teacher of the homework weren't you 😂

[Miah04]

Hell naw. 😂 i was a good student, because i was quiet and got good grades. But never would i do that 😂

[Asker]

I don't believe you, you probably sneaked your forgotten homework on the teachers desk 😂

[Miah04]

No😂 i really was good. I mean i can run my mouth, but when you grew up playing a male dominated sport you had to learn to trash talk.
y'all mouth asf

[Asker]

You weren't those chicks that touch people's hair right?

[Miah04]

No. That's creepy

[Asker]

Good, hated those people

[Miah04]

People used to touch your hair?😂

[Asker]

Yea I had longer hair back then and it was mostly the black chicks that liked my hair, it was soft so I guess cause it's not really a softness their hair can normally reach they would play with my hair in class, I'm not racist but when black women sat behind me I was like "ah fuck"

[Miah04]

Lol.

[serenalovesramen]

i use spotify

[Asker]

Fair enough lol

[serenalovesramen]

who pays for music

[Asker]

You'd be surprised lol

[serenalovesramen]

do u

[Asker]

Way to read my damn paragraph you asshole 😂

[serenalovesramen]

bro my brain just skipped to the last part

[Asker]

Yea no kidding I can tell 😆

[serenalovesramen]

cappppp

[Asker]

Nice defense strategy lol

[serenalovesramen]

it always work

[Asker]

Yea almost had me thinking I was a liar for a sec

[serenalovesramen]

u r a liar

[Asker]

Cappppp

[serenalovesramen]

actually ur more of a copycat

[Asker]

Wow it worked foreal 😏

[serenalovesramen]

I came in this bitch with a mil' worth of cash (m)
Like Bandicoot, we 'bout to crash (crash)
No remorse, I put five through your dash (bitch)

[Asker]

I can see directly into youngboys chamber and his shit is not chambered 💀

[serenalovesramen]

im pulling 3 all nighters

[Asker]

Tick tock I guess, how's the hand tho sniffles? 🤧

[serenalovesramen]

it’s fucking annoying

[Asker]

Same response as Tia when she broke her arm 😂

That's how I know you are telling the truth lol

[serenalovesramen]

i never believed her when she said it’s annoying 💀

[Asker]

So was it your main hand or the other? 😂

[serenalovesramen]

main hand

[Asker]

Oof. 😂

[litty736]

Nope