Well, love is nice, but money IS better. Does that mean I'm shiny too?

The one about the Redskins had me in stitches, and I thought Cock Magic was, well, magical, but I found the rest of the season frankly tedious (including the episode you mention, where I must side with the AV Club in that it was a great idea poorly used). I'm a huge SP fan and until this season I've loved just about…

Huh, must have missed this post. I say, spiffing taste, bravo good sir! Anything touched by Chris Morris or Armando Ianucci is amazing.

I've read through a lot of the replies and one that I don't think was mentioned is Big Train with Simon Pegg (and a few others that are less well-known in the US). Fantastic deadpan stuff. Here's a sketch from the first episode.

What I'm saying is what counts is the number of people playing the song. If it's a thousand people playing it once Spotify is not worth it compared to iTunes and such. If it's fifty people playing it twenty times each, then it's worth it. Those people are going to carry on listening to it too.

Yeah, I figure about the same too. There are a lot of albums I've listened to more than 40 times on Spotify. Granted, there are many more that I've only listened to once or twice, but without Spotify I probably would not have bought them either or even have heard of them for that matter.

Honestly yes, I know a lot of (relatively underground) musicians that feel that it's just a complement to the record sales and a good way to get exposure. People who like having a vinyl or a CD are still going to buy it. I know I buy records and still listen to them on Spotify because it's easy (and because it pays…

I feel like people don't notice that Spotify pays per stream. So a song can generate a ton of revenue for the artist if it's played a lot. Some can download it on iTunes, listen to it hundreds of times, and the artist gets paid just once.

Yeah, I get where you're coming from - I'm not saying you're bound to like it, it's just that to me, Fulcher's appearances there exemplify his comedic style, which people either love or hate, plain and simple. Basically watching The Mighty Boosh is just an easy way to figure out if Rich Fulcher is for you or not.

Maybe try The Mighty Boosh. I find the whole musical thing (a song every episode) drags the show down, but if you can get past that, Rich Fulcher's appearances are gold.

Except with Amazon, iTunes and other services like that it's a one-time fee. With Spotify every play gives the artist money. Indefinitely. If you listen to album more than a certain number of times on Spotify you've given the artist more than if you bought it, and it will just carry on going.