As I was going through my monthly credit card statements a couple nights ago, I noticed an anomaly. My Spotify Duo subscription for my wife and I had two more bucks added to it. This can’t be right - I thought as I Googled (I DuckDuckGo, but using that as a verb just sounds wrong) the monthly prices. And there it was - Spotify had just hiked their subscription prices.
Needless to say, I wasn’t amused. They’ve been doing this almost every single year now for three years in a row. Twice is a coincidence, thrice is a pattern. And with Spotify, an ugly ugly one.
Netflix crawled through this first, so that the likes of Spotify could run today. You see, they sold us cheap convenience, grabbed us all by our balls (metaphorically), drugged us with their sweet sweet algorithm, and now we’re addicted to it.
We’re all algoholics.
Netflix and Apple have doubled their subscription prices while the national average wage has barely moved a needle, but that’s ok. Everyone’s doing it, so it must be fair. Just catch up. Why think twice?
It’s not about that $1 bump that I’m penny-pinching about. It’s our dependency that they’re monopolizing on. It’s easy to forget, you don’t get to own any of what they offer at the end of that day.
Make owning your media cool again! I promise this make something something again won’t be a recurring pattern.
Anyway, thanks for coming to my Ted Talk. Ciao!
Hey Siri, play Disco Snails on Spotify..