It fell out of my backpack when I met Hunny Bunny for tacos. She picked it up and followed me over to the bar stools, “Ah, I think you dropped this.” Yes, I did drop it and no, I wasn’t embarrassed. iPods are the horchata and most dependable way to listen to music anywhere you want to eat a taco. Why? I’ll tell you why.
iPods don’t skip, they don’t care about a 4G connection, no one tries to call you on your iPod, and they play music in CD quality. Streaming can’t claim any of these points except maybe CD quality, but that’s only when you’re connected to WIFI hanging out at your friend’s house watching their mom clean.
Ever been dragged into the mountains and tried to stream music? Fool’s gold. It doesn’t work. Ever been sitting next to screaming kids on a train and wanted to stream music? Blood boiling. It doesn’t work. Yes, you can save music to listen to offline on your streaming service, but the sound quality is bat guano. I would rather listen to someone chew taco shells.
Streaming has its pros for people. If you want access to gangs of popular music for a cheap monthly fee, and you don’t care about sound quality in a train tunnel or the musicians behind the music trying to eek out a living, and you never leave your friend’s house; then streaming is perfect for you. But if you do care about any of these things and you’re in a fight with your friend or his mom kicked you out, then no, streaming is not for you.
I have a subscription to Tidal for one reason and one reason only; Playlists. Playlists are the only reason to stream music. It’s like your favorite public radio station without all the Geico commercials. Other than that, buy music and support musicians or listen to the radio.
POISON CIRCUS is now streaming on all music platforms except Pandora. But you can buy it here.
Now where is my iPod? 7 devils! The battery is dead.
-Samson
