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Hi, Ed.

You said:

Subscriptions and owning music are not mutually exclusive. In fact, I still buy music even though I have a subscription. But I'm able to be much more selective and dramatically decrease the chances that I will make a purchase I regret.

That part does make some sense to me. I think it definitely depends on how much music you buy and how experimental you are. If you're very experimental with your music, you could shield yourself from bad purchases that way.

Personally, I only buy music from artists I know I like, so I'm rarely disappointed with a purchase. I had that experience of disappointment much more with services like Emusic, where I could only find artists "like" the ones that I wanted, than a service like Amazon, where I could find the exact artist. I think the reason for that is because with the a la carte options the music stores have now, I don't have to take a chance on a whole CD if I only want a few songs. For me personally, 30 seconds is usually enough to let me know if I like a song.

But then again, I only discover maybe two or three new bands in a whole year that I want to get CDs from. I don't think that's a function of not listening to enough music. I think it's more a function that there's not enough new stuff out there that I really like.

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