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I don’t consider myself, by nature, to be a risky person when it comes to spending money. I tend to save when I can and budget in a way that seems reasonable to me and my needs. It’s a very pragmatic process: I get a paycheck, I put a chunk into my savings, and the rest is allotted in proper measurements toward beer, rent, and sushi. I don’t have a lot of extra to toss around on frivolous things, and for the most part, I just don’t buy them. (For the record, I absolutely do not consider beer or sushi frivolous. Those are necessities.) If there’s a free version of something available, the chances are high that I’ll go with that and not bother with the upgraded, non-free version. The perfect example of this is Spotify, the free version of which I used consistently and with relative happiness—until I started working full time.
Before I started working, I used the free version of Spotify when I was studying and working out, and it didn’t seem like a huge deal. But the times when I was working out or studying for eight hours straight or longer were few and far between. When I started working, I needed something that would distract me a little more. Nothing prepared me for the exquisite torture of being shut in a fluorescently lit room day in, day out with nothing to entertain me but work (which I obviously was going to do as little of as possible).
Suddenly, the music I listened to became more than music. My headphones provided me with a mecca of freedom and safety, an oasis that transported me from my cubicle to somewhere sunny and boozy, or anywhere I wasn’t sitting in a chair that smelled like someone else’s sweat and potato chips. I didn’t have time or energy anymore to deal with the commercials that interrupted that precious listening time, or the way Spotify peppered in “suggested songs” outside of the playlist I was listening to. Their weird-ass suggestions jolted me and totally threw off my working vibe. I didn’t need suggestions. I needed freedom. So I adulted up, and I bought a subscription to Spotify Premium. It’s not that expensive, especially since I got the first three months for less than a dollar a month, which is affordable for someone who doesn’t even have a job. Now, the first three months have come and gone and it takes about ten dollars out of my bank account every single month — and I’m addicted.
This shit has changed my fucking life. That is not an exaggeration. I wish it were, honestly, because what kind of life am I living if something so simple can make such an impact? I guess whoever said “it’s the little things in life that matter” was absolutely correct. Spotify Premium is magic in my ears. I can listen to almost any song I want. The best part: I can download any song I want. I can listen to a new song, decide I like it, and download it to my music to save for all eternity. I can download entire albums if I want to, then create my own playlists specially fine-tuned for whatever shitty situation at work I’m in. Every Friday, Spotify creates a new playlist, New Music Friday, and it’s fucking bomb. I always end up downloading, like, half of it to my own library. Probably the best part, though, is the fact that I can skip any song I want. If something comes up on New Music Friday that sounds like trash, I skip it. Sometimes I hit the skip button over and over just because I can, because it gives me some illusion of control over my life. I can sit in my office, reading an email from my boss demanding that I do something that I know I’ll eventually have to do, and skip a song, or a hear a new one that blows my mind.
This is my life. Judge me all you want, but Spotify Premium makes it brighter. .
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Rory Gilmore
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Using your student email to get Spotify Premium half off. Both a problem and power move.
Yea, but do you make between £10-11k/month?
I know someone who does.
What is that in real people money?
I think you can redeem them at Dave and Busters for prizes.
It works kind of like Camel Cash
spotify premium is the best monthly purchase there is. I’ll even put it above netflix.
Have you checked out the Discover Weekly playlist. Every Monday, Spotify makes a 30 song playlist based on what you listened to the previous week. I always find a couple gems in that one.
Probably one of the more underrated features of Spotify.
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Half my days at work are spent organizing new playlists. Once you go premium there is no going back.
I didn’t know Spotify was made by Grandex.
Dude this all day. Plus, I still have my unlimited data plan, bc I’m not an idiot and didn’t give it up. Only problem is the dungeon I work in has terrabull cell phone reception.
You’re damn right sushi is needed.
I don’t even have this shit but you write like that of a wizard and in turn I will remove the yamacha from my head and purchase Spotify premium