{"id":5955,"date":"2010-11-30T17:53:28","date_gmt":"2010-11-30T22:53:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/?p=5955"},"modified":"2010-11-30T17:53:28","modified_gmt":"2010-11-30T22:53:28","slug":"done-with-emusic-or-trying-to-be","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/2010\/11\/30\/done-with-emusic-or-trying-to-be\/","title":{"rendered":"done with emusic &#8211; or trying to be"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I <a href=\"http:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/2010\/10\/11\/emusic-canada-changes-its-pricing\/\">knew<\/a> that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.billboard.biz\/bbbiz\/content_display\/industry\/e3ifc4c9ce41adb968c27fa0b75c8c48587\">nothing good<\/a> would come of emusic&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.emusic.com\/notification\/update.html\">plan changes<\/a>. I mean, <a href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/media\/news\/2010\/11\/emusic-changes-pricing-structure-to-nab-major-label-tracks.ars\">dumping all your favourite indie labels and replacing them with mainstream crud<\/a>; how&#8217;s that working out for you, yeah?<\/p>\n<p>Just to show you how things have changed, here&#8217;s a list of the most recent artists I&#8217;d downloaded pre-plan changes. The ones in red are ones you can&#8217;t get any more:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Barry Louis Polisar<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Belle and Sebastian<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">Boards Of Canada<\/span> \u00e2\u20ac\u201d only one album available<\/li>\n<li>Dum Dum Girls<\/li>\n<li>Eels<\/li>\n<li>Elizabeth Cotten<\/li>\n<li>Elsinore<\/li>\n<li>Euros Childs<\/li>\n<li>Forest City Lovers<\/li>\n<li>Frontier Ruckus<\/li>\n<li>Gonja Sufi<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Gorky&#8217;s Zygotic Mynci<\/span><\/li>\n<li>Hold Your Horses!<\/li>\n<li>Macy Gray<\/li>\n<li>Michael Hurley<\/li>\n<li>Mount Eerie<\/li>\n<li>Pocahaunted<\/li>\n<li>Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin<\/li>\n<li>Sun Kil Moon<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">The Delgados<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">The Moldy Peaches<\/span><\/li>\n<li>The Tallest Man On Earth<\/li>\n<li>The Turtles<\/li>\n<li>The Whitlams<\/li>\n<li>Will Powers<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And here was me on a major Delgados kick, and they&#8217;re gone.<\/p>\n<p>So cancelled my plan on the weekend, and got this:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/scruss.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/Your-Account_1290878208274.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5968\" title=\"emusic: cancel today, account runs until august\" src=\"http:\/\/scruss.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/Your-Account_1290878208274.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"609\" height=\"388\" srcset=\"https:\/\/scruss.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/Your-Account_1290878208274.png 609w, https:\/\/scruss.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/Your-Account_1290878208274-160x101.png 160w, https:\/\/scruss.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/Your-Account_1290878208274-320x203.png 320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 609px) 100vw, 609px\" \/><\/a>Yep, if you&#8217;re on an annual plan, you&#8217;ve got to sit it out. They don&#8217;t offer refunds. So now I have to remember to go in every thirty days for the next nine months to find something &#8211; anything! &#8211; to download. It&#8217;s extremely shabby that emusic are holding over $100 of my balance to ransom. I guess they&#8217;re just trying to fit in with the mainstream music industry &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I knew that nothing good would come of emusic&#8217;s plan changes. I mean, dumping all your favourite indie labels and replacing them with mainstream crud; how&#8217;s that working out for you, yeah? Just to show you how things have changed, here&#8217;s a list of the most recent artists I&#8217;d downloaded pre-plan changes. The ones in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[14,7],"tags":[1338],"class_list":["post-5955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-choons","category-computers-suck","tag-emusic"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pQNZZ-1y3","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5955","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5955"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5955\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6010,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5955\/revisions\/6010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}