Does streaming make us lazy?

[Cricketbat70]

Perhaps the main negative of streaming is that the artist is being ripped off. This is not a good thing.

I do buy physical media if I find new material on Spotify. As mentioned by someone else earlier in this post there are a few artists that only release material on streaming services. My son likes Gareth Emery he does release physical media but only in limited numbers and they are £££'s I'm waiting for Gary Numan's daughter Raven to release a physical album but the record label won't release one until she has a bigger following and has supported acts other than her dad on tour. So just have to listen on streaming services.

 

[Cricketbat70]

I actually met Gary Numan before he was famous.
I was still at school and my mate and me worked after school in a book warehouse where Gary was working, he was Bowie mad and a decent bloke in his late teens, maybe early twenties.
On occasions a book would fell off the shelf and oooops into the tall bin.
We'll tell Gary, we're going to empty the bin.
Gary would say,
You think I don't know what ya up to?
Go on, p'k orff!!
Ha ha, great bloke!

It was by accident I discovered Gary was still making music. It will be 8 years ago now I was sat in the cellar and I saw an advert on my phone for his then new album Savage. So I jumped on Amazon without hearing it first and bought it on CD and instantly got an MP3 download of the album and listened to it there and then and loved it. The year after I went to see him at Preston Guild Hall (Savage Tour part 2). I've since been listening to the albums he's done after I thought he'd retired in the mid 80’s.

 

[Jasonovich]

It was by accident I discovered Gary was still making music. It will be 8 years ago now I was sat in the cellar and I saw an advert on my phone for his then new album Savage. So I jumped on Amazon without hearing it first and bought it on CD and instantly got an MP3 download of the album and listened to it there and then and loved it. The year after I went to see him at Preston Guild Hall (Savage Tour part 2). I've since been listening to the albums he's done after I thought he'd retired in the mid 80’s.

I must admit, I only remembered him for that one song.

I should try listening to his albums. When I was looking for something outside of Bowie, I sort of branched towards Lou Reed and Iggy Pop.
I think I have one of his albums, I need to check 😊

 

[Steve983]

They've always been ripped off by the industry, and never made much money from physical media either.

Streaming is just the current bogeyman.

Streaming does however give artists access to potentially billions of pairs of ears though, and many independent artists have been discovered and become successful because of it....

Never made money - That is completely untrue. And if 'they've always been ripped off' (only partly true) that does not make it ok. Would you be happy to be paid basically nothing for your work?

The likes of Spotify are bloodsuckers and are devaluing music and the majority of people who don't care about music are letting them.

 

[DCarmi]

One thing I did notice, when Spotify Wrapped hit my phone, was how much less I streamed this year than previous ones. There was also a big difference in the type of stuff streamed. This was most streamed was large play lists of classical music.

Basically I am using it as background noise, rather than listening to it. If I am listening I'm using physical media.

 

[matthewpianist]

Whether or not streaming sounds better is a matter of opinion. I would certainly say it is as good as CD, but there are questions over how much the human ear can actually decipher anything above that quality, especially as we age.

Don't get me wrong, I will always use streaming as part of the mix (or at least until our internet access becomes corrupted by forces outside our control), but I do think I (and likely some others) have become too used to 'lazy' sessions that end up being track hopping rather than listening to albums/full works.