Free Music Free music is now available through many legal sources, from streaming services to online
radio stations, making it largely unnecessary to purchase and album or even a single song. As
sales figures continue to drop, some musicians, both high-profile and relatively unknown,
have even quit trying to sell their music altogether, choosing instead to release new material
for free online. Perhaps this trend is a matter of simple economics: cheap is good, but free is
better. But it is worth considering whether our apparent unwillingness to spend money on
music is an indication that its value in our lives is changing.
Read and carefully consider these perspectives. Each suggests a particular way of thinking
about the changing value of music in our lives.
Perspective One
Perspective Two
Perspective Three
With so many free Music competes for our Digital technologies and
sources, people are attention with many other the Internet have changed
listening to more music kinds of inexpensive our relationship with
and discovering more entertainment these days. music. It is so plentiful
new musicians than ever We still value it, but we and readily available now
before Wide availability also have a lot of other that all value has been
has only increased our
ways to spend our money.
diluted.
appreciation of music