the emo diaries

#BurningThoughts: Soundsupply Supplies What Music Lovers Demand

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The modern music lover is left with a big problem these days. They love music and most of them want to own it either in physical files on their computers and MP3 Players or records and CDs in their rooms. And at the same time, a lot of them want to support the bands that they love.

Streaming services like Spotify and Pandora are great and might actually be the saving grace of the declining music industry. But they charge money for music that you cannot own and there are several articles about how some streaming services like Spotify cheat the musicians, enough so that Thom Yorke (of Radiohead fame) would pull his music from the service and another band attempts to cheat it. Although, there are contesting reports that Spotify is not as bad as some musicians claim.

This paradox is helped remedied by a new way to purchase and support music called Soundsupply. The concept for Soundsupply is simple: music lovers can purchase music (in either .MP3 or FLAC format) in cheap bundles called “drops” that are only available for a limited time.

Screenshot 2014-04-04 14.41.20Drops usually contain about 10 – 12 albums and can be anywhere from $12 to $15, and sometimes even free depending on the size of the drop. Some of them are developed by the people at Soundsupply themselves or by guest curators, like indie duo Ivan & Alyosha (available now).

With drops only being about $15 at the most (about the cost of physical CD today), you can get over a dozen albums for the price of one. And the best thing about it, is that 73% of profits from the drops go to the artists involved. If the idea of cheap, great music that you get to actually download and keep forever does not interest you, then you are on the wrong website.

Go to Soundsupply now and pick up two free drops now from touring bands: The Wonder Years and La Dispute. You can also pick up the drop made by guest curator Ivan & Alyosha for $12, as well as all 12 chapters of The Emo Diaries for $15. And if that was not enough, sign-up for their mailing list and get 17 songs free.

Soundsupply is the great and legal solution to the problems plaguing the modern music lover today.