I’d say, that, on average, I get bored of my entire music collection about 3 times a year…..and this is one of those times. It’s not a bad thing, in fact I really enjoy it when it happens, as it gives me the chance to spend vast amounts of time, money and effort listening to music that I’ve never heard before, which is just damn ace!

Right now, I’m loving quite a few groups / genres that have been recommended to me from friends / reviews in Magazines. Artists such as Fleet Foxes, Frankmusik, Passion Pit, Ladytron, and as of today, Low (See video at end of post).

I guess with Spotify in full flow, it’s become easy for people around the world to share playlists and have free access to practically any song in the world. And why not? You switch on the radio and have free music, you turn on the TV and can select what you want to listen to, so why not allow access to millions of songs at the cost of just a few tiny adverts here or there online.

But oh no, the music companies aren’t happy for people to have access to their artists without paying stupid amounts of money to download or purchase their favorite tunes. I’m not ashamed to admit that I have done / will download music from sources that don’t charge money before making a purchase. But I found that with Spotify, I hardly downloaded anything at all, because it was just quicker and easier to load Spotify and listen to whatever I wanted. So looking at it logically, the record companies we’re making money off me, not directly, but I was listening to the adverts, which no doubt funded Spotifies use of the tracks. Infact, I remember having a discussion with work colleagues about wanting an xBox, simply because we had all heard the xBox ad several times on Spotify that day.

I can only begin to think that the record companies are going to end up with egg on their faces if they continue to strip programs such as Spotify from its rights to play certain artists, after all, surely a steady stream of income through advertising is better than nothing at all, especially with the ever increasing “black market” of illegal MP3 downloads?

I’ve set up a collaborative play list on Spotify that I’d really like people to add to (sooner rather than later, before Spotify has nothing good left on it!), to introduce some cool music into my collection. Just click here and start adding, if you wish