Thanks for the recommendation brother. I’ll have to preview it and if I find it enticing enough, perhaps I’ll donate to the artist

Does it? I really need to check some out. I might already know some but is there a good place to start? Just to dip my toes in the water? I’ve been a little bit newer to the pop-ish scene and maybe prefer things a little more in the alt/indie/bedroom style but I’m trying to Branch out. So if you got any album in particular or something that is a good place to start that would be cool

So wait the scientists would be doing drugs and talking about Star Trek while sharing research?

We really did fuck up the timeline, didn’t we?

I’ll have to check this one out later, thanks for a recommendation!

I’d like to have some home network type of deal set up, I’ve been meaning to look into that. Self-hosting comm more. I don’t really have Internet right now though, aside from my cell phone, so I’m not sure if that would put a damper on things.

Kind of janky but maybe something like this? https://soundclouddl.cc/ or something like this perhaps https://github.com/archisvaze/arcdlp if you just use a search engine to look up YouTube to MP3 or something to that nature you can find a lot of different results. I think they even make browser extensions as well.

I actually did just buy a lot of albums in the last 48 hours, once I realized that I could bc my tax return lol. Before that I was pretty broke and wishing I could actually buy some. A light bulb finally went off and I was like oh yeah, I got some money now :p I do like to test drive a lot to see if I really vibe with it also. if it’s something that actually touches me, I usually wind up wanting to have a higher quality version stored locally.

I pretty much only use it for music, and most of the extensions have still gotten me by. At least long enough to rip the song to my hard drive for offline use. Fuck $16 a month. That’s ridiculous. For $16 I could get an album or two every month and not have to worry about some buffering bullshit. After a year, not only would I be supporting the artists directly and avoiding paying paying a scummy company, I’d actually have some discographies built up to permanently show for it. They’re just inadvertently trying to support people sailing the high seas. So irritating…

This reminds me of that scene from the OG Clerks lol