Call me a penny-pincher (The Left-Side finds hilarity in that idea), but I am just going to go ahead and take a HUGE pass on the Tidal wave that is coming from Jay Z and his rich and musical buddies.
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| My iDevices hold my iMusic. I'm good. |
Rolling Stone reports that Tidal was purchased for many millions. Does the exact amount even matter?
Now, the new kids on the tidal wave (Madonna is one) want $10.00-$20.00 per month to stream music into your head and heart.
As a lifetime lover of music, I have the music in me (Kiki Dee, I bow). Music flows via our cable system, iPads, iPhones, satellite radio, and CD (yeah, but rarely these days).
I pay for music, always have, I don't have a problem with musicians making cash. They should.
So, if the artists joining J 'n Bey, get richer from this, and have control over their product, swell.
However, like joining a book club, wine club or any other such outlet, I am not one to make the most of a pre-planned-purchasing situation. I am more of a free-spirit-purchaser.
In my world, music channels come with cable (they are not that great, so we play our iTunes through our television system, a lot), Amazon Prime has free music (in the sense that we are Prime members) and I haunt and search iTunes on a very regular basis. For $.99, I get what I want, when I want it and it stays on my iDevices (invented that term, don't tell Apple). In a pinch, LS and I can even resort to VINYL we have stashed. So, I'm good.
But, good luck with Tidal, all you multi-millionaire music moguls. Rock on.
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