Sign up for Spotify or you're stupid.

• Dave Foster In my very very long relationship with software and software companies I have very very rarely ever actually respected any piece of software enough to pay for it. Perhaps a dozen, if that, over the years have been deemed worthy of my luchre. I have been waiting to examine Spotify now since learning of it about two years or so ago, but its use was limited to Europe and the UK at that time (although I tried for a while to apply some, errrr 'workarounds' to skirt that limitation, but was unsuccessful) and so I relented and used ATROCIOUS and DEPLORABLE rank exercises in SHITE like iTunes and a few others that have earned little aplomb enough to be mentioned. Now it is available in the USA and I have this to say: If you listen to music, use a computer, smart phone, etc. and you don't get this and at least try it out then you are beneath my contempt and I do not like you any more.
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  Dave Foster Pay money. Buy the $4.99 a month version or, if you use a smartphone, splurge for the $9.99 a month version. If you don't like it, cancel and move on with what passes as your life. But you will indeed like it. It has room for improvement, don't get me wrong, but that's the neat thing. That software THIS GOOD can still be better, gradually as its popularity increases (and it will) fanbase will determine and demand and will get the little tweaks that should be added to make Spotify the dominate music source of the planet. Pandora, iTunes, and even my beloved Last.fm (which Spotify must respect, too, as it allows you to scrobble tunes to Last.FM) will bow their heads to Spotify out of sincere respect.