So, like, how much does it cost? Happily, Spotify has a free plan that’s on a waitlist right now unless you can swing an invite from your Europals or savvy state-side friends. By the way, can we all go back on there? Remember how it’s cool?) It’s basically a pre-stocked iTunes that takes up essentially no hard drive space and you can tie it into your Facebooks and your Twitters and whatever you budding social media flowers are doing these days (but not Google+, yet.
Spotify is on-demand, which means you don’t have to endure songs that you’d be uncool if we knew you listened to while you’re waiting for Your Next Jam. Rdio is okay if you’re into compromise, but Spotify combines the super-clean, navigable interface of iTunes with an epic catalogue of music that probably meets 95.5% of your sonic needs. Spotify is a music streaming service, not unlike Rdio, but not like it either. After negotiating deals with the four major music industry demons, you can now stream basically whatever your tiny, ever-earnest heart could desire.
If you were stateside last month, Spotify took the the Niña, Pinta and the Santa María, over the fucking Atlantic ocean and right to your ears. If you live outside the U.S., you may have been using Spotify for months, in which case gloat on, you gloaty diamonds. You may have mixed feelings about the increasing level of digital interconnected weirdness dominating your life, but you probably are just going to straight up love these two music streaming things that you should be listening to your delicately crafted playlists on. YouTube, Netflix and Hulu are dominating our eyeparts with streaming video and now we’ve got music options to match - ones that blow Limewire out of the proverbial water body.Not only is music streaming these days, it’s getting social - like everything else, for better or worse. While a direct musician-to-listener relationship could be ideal, and some artists are bold enough to go that route, we’re entering the golden era of streaming.
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