So yesterday I decided to sign up for Spotify Premium (Student, which is
$4.99/mo instead of $9.99). I'm enjoying it so far, even though I'm not
a huge music listener. Like, seriously, I don't listen to a lot of
music. I really prefer silence in the background, and I can't understand
those who have music running for them 24/7. It would drive me absolutely
insane.
I like music, though, a lot, and I liked the prospect of being able to
stream whatever I wanted in the background in high quality (decided that
after using my friend's Spotify Premium until he eventually kicked me
off of it bc only one device could listen at a time). I'd like to have
something like YouTube Red, which includes music, but $10 a month is
ridiculous for a small set of originals and background playback (which
should be free anyway). Like, seriously, I would pay for YT Red if it
were, say, $3/mo or even $50/year (which is about $4.16/mo), but $120 a
year is ridiculous. Especially considering the only things I give two
flips about on it are the background playback, lack of ads on my
playstation, and VSauce's Mind Field. That's it. Whereas with
Crunchyroll I pay $6/mo and get a heckton of HD anime that's released an
hour after it airs in Japan, or with Spotify I pay $5/mo and get
unlimited music and can download it (plus it comes with a Hulu
subscription, which is essentially worthless to me but still). YouTube
thinks it's a Netflix competitor when it isn't, and it's prices are just
unnecessarily high - especially considering they generate millions of
dollars through ads anyway.
Anyway, other than that I think I'm going to eat some ramen and get
ready for the day. I hope that this weekend I'll be able to get back to
listening to Wasabi more often, as I haven't been able to at all in the
past few weeks. Definitely at least once the school year ends I'll be
tuning into it every weekend, but I'm happy with putting that off as
long as possible. I'm nowhere near ready for the summer.
Also, the situation may improve today. Or it may not. My anxiety is
running high about it, so again, all prayers definitely help. God knows
the need. Right now I just have to remember to breathe.
