Speak for yourself idiot

agree also not all albums/mixtapes arethere so many people miss out on good projects if its not on stream they dont believe they exist. and people change their projects update then not to my liking

artists didnt get much out of physical sales either dont get this argument

why are hip hop fans obsessed with sales? Surely as a fan you just want the easiest most convenient way to listen to all the music?

always have a back up

this was the worst, i only re upped on apple music this year because of that. it works pretty well now with your downloaded music

i remember Future - Now was replaced with some rock song at the time lol

I kinda get it?

When i think of all the random songs I downloaded off YouTube and put them onto an mp3 with small storage I felt more of a connection to the songs cause I was stuck with them

Everybody was at the time because it was uncharted territory. Back when TPAB and TLOP went platinum (I think it was TLOP) people called it fake platinum because of the streams.

That and there's the argument that playing a song an x amount of times doesn't equate to buying it.

yeah same goes for physical media

op is lying

show receipts

in a way the argument still holds up. The number of streams that count as a sale has changed a lot over the past few years so it all feels very arbitrary

Yeah eventhough I came to terms with it I can see why someone would be against it.

It doesn’t at all,when you see a Youngboy or Gunna type rapper go platinum off streaming,you have to ask yourself,would this went plat if people had to pay $19.99 for this project?

I was streaming by 2015 before that just downloaded zips or bought physicals if I liked it

Isn’t there a formula that determines how many paid and free streams equal one sale?

I streamed spotify from 2010 until 2017

In 2018 i bought myself a high end audio player, loaded up a bunch of FLACs and use that whenever im outside.

This yeat I bought a 1 TB smartphone, so I still use FLACs instead of streaming when im on the go. At home i use YouTube Vanced instead of spotify

I don’t have a streaming service. I still get my music the OG way. I understand why people do it though.

u gotta remember ktt members are all middle schoolers

i was 17 nd unemployed when apple music was announced and i was like bro 10 a month too much for me

i was using spotify on pc tho it was lit but i always was the music plug in my school cuz i knew what atrilli and pp was lol

i still copped apple music right when it came out tho
i remember witnessing wattba and birds on beats radio s*** was wild

i also remember thinking music would sound like youtube rips off my 4g but they did a great job in streaming quality after i started using it

fr bro, i dont understand why ppl be soooo crazy to get mixtapes on spotify and apple music when itunes still exists lol it takes 2 secs to download something on a computer and then just upload to icloud

Same I was hyped when I found out I could play WATTBA right away instead of having to wait for a zip file

There sites out there that have Apple releases every Friday. I can’t give away the sauce though.

still agree with everything in op

everyone knows about plus premiers man

ppl who own use to be on ktt