Spotify for £5 tempts me at last… what about you?

Tuesday, May 18th, 2010

I’ve been a whisker away from signing up to Spotify Premium in the past, with the promise of all-you-can-eat music enough to lure me to the Spotify home page – but never quite enough to persuade me to part with £10 per month.

But this morning’s announcement – a cut-down version for £4.99 per month that brings music to your PC but not to your phone – has finally brought my dust-ridden credit card out of retirement.

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Music download death stares

Tuesday, May 20th, 2008

Yesterday was my worst, ever afternoon since I started working on Pro all those moons ago. As part of my roving reporter bit I was wandering around the streets of London chatting to folks about online music for the latest edition of the podcast – a task, as it turned out, which would have been made only marginally more difficult if I’d approached them with a necklace of skulls, a voodoo doll, and a blood-smeared machete.

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