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Let's just start off with a bold statement: there are no such thing as "guilty pleasures".      What I mean to express by this is that there is music that one likes and there is music that one dislikes, and there are no guilty pleasures in the purest form of consuming music. Only when you use listening to music as a personality crutch, can something you might listen to become a guilty pleasure. Because at that point, you become worried enough about revealing that listening habit to others that it becomes alike in how you dress yourself, if you listen to something you actually audibly enjoy, and decide against pursuing it because of personal image, you are not consuming music correctly. (stock images are great, don't @ me. I'm lazy and don't want to create a header.) Preference:      I have been guilty before of hiding aspects of my musical tastes to homogenize my tastes as a "Metalhead" when I was younger, I even contacted spotify to un...

     It is true. I have been a pirate, I deserve to be hanged by the British colonies for my plundering and pilfering of delights of the ears and the eyes…      Ok well this is all a bit dramatic, but it is true. Any way I could download music or videos, I did. For the purposes of this post, we'll focus on music. It wasn't until a few months ago, until just after I married Justine that we had a conversation about the various forms of downloading entertainment and as these things go, Justine caused me to look at things differently. And for the better. It was then that I started to try and only listen to music legally. Spotify has been a big aid in this pursuit, and while the amount that artists are paid on Spotify is a drop in the ocean , Spotify is a great place to listen to music and find new music.      If you've clicked on this post, you have probably expected me to talk about Bandcamp, or even just wondered what Bandcam...