Question for emus
I'm curious how my fellow eMusic subscriber friends are handling eMu's recent and controversial changes: the $ pricing system, the dropping out of some significant Indie labels, the big dump of major-label material.
I'm nearing the end of my first year membership and contemplating the renewal question. I've been really happy with my subscription this year, and thanks whc for being so patient in your recommendations of the service; it only took me, what, three years? I expect that I will renew for another full year, come February, but am curious to hear some input from longer-term members. What are your plans re: eMusic in the new year?
For myself, I don't see the major-label proliferation as evil (the classic era jazz additions to the eMusic library could probably keep me satisfied for the next year of downloads). Sure, Merge and other similar labels will be missed, but there still seems to be plenty of good alterna-stuff left. My own "Save for Later" list only shrunk by a couple titles (that I probably should have downloaded long ago if I was all that serious about them) when the change came. So those are my first impressions of this brave new eMusic world. I look forward to hearing yours.
I did lurk the eMessage boards for a bit: Man, there are some really pissed off people over there! ;-)
I'm nearing the end of my first year membership and contemplating the renewal question. I've been really happy with my subscription this year, and thanks whc for being so patient in your recommendations of the service; it only took me, what, three years? I expect that I will renew for another full year, come February, but am curious to hear some input from longer-term members. What are your plans re: eMusic in the new year?
For myself, I don't see the major-label proliferation as evil (the classic era jazz additions to the eMusic library could probably keep me satisfied for the next year of downloads). Sure, Merge and other similar labels will be missed, but there still seems to be plenty of good alterna-stuff left. My own "Save for Later" list only shrunk by a couple titles (that I probably should have downloaded long ago if I was all that serious about them) when the change came. So those are my first impressions of this brave new eMusic world. I look forward to hearing yours.
I did lurk the eMessage boards for a bit: Man, there are some really pissed off people over there! ;-)