When I heard that Apple Music is offering a 3 month FREE trial for their take on a Spotify/Netflix franken-streaming service which not only offers unlimited music, but also includes long anticipated original content from Apple I had to give it a try. Here’s how you get it – IMPORTANT: You must be on your mobile phone or tablet to claim the offer. Click the below banner (don’t worry if you aren’t a Kygo fan, that will just take you to the page where the 3 month FREE trial begins). This will now automatically connect you to your iTunes Store. Once iTunes Store opens up, click “Try It Now and Get 3 Free Month.” A new window will pop up where you’ll click “Try it Now,” and then select the plan you want (individual, family or student).
Click This Banner Below To Start Your Apple Music 3 Month FREE Trial!
If you’re like me (Gen X or Gen Y), you started off your digital music habit with iTunes in the early 2000’s, and spent all that f*cking money buying songs over the last decade or so thinking you were building some sort of digital empire you could live off the rest of your life. Right, yea you, I’m talking to you over there with the trucker hat and Von Dutch shirt. That’s right, you, the dude who still has a MySpace page, wears various colored bands on his arm for a “cause,” and is busy setting “ring-back tones” on their Motorola Sprint flip phone. Yea, that guy in Ugg boots and and True Religion jeans bobbing his head to Outcast’s “Hey Ya.”
That also probably means you pay $9.99 a month for Spotify now, and you rarely consider the fact that you could probably buy a small Asian-made car with the amount of dollars you have spent on iTunes tracks over the last 10 years. I’m not bitter, I promise, I’m really not bitter. Apparently it’s my fault that I was born in the 80’s and had to be the prime target of the music industry’s conversion from bought vs rented music. Because our generation didn’t have it hard enough with the transformation a decade earlier from cassette to CD, and eventually to MP3 and streaming (I think there was a mini-disc in there somewhere too…perhaps a laser disc as well). Yea, and I’m also not bitter that I used to be able to consume free music through Napster, Limewire, and a handful of other temporarily legal digital music exchanges and now I have to pay for that same music.
The point is, it’s always changing, and probably changing for the better from a consumer’s point of view. Which brings me to the new Apple Music (a sexy way of saying “ITunes for rent”), the newish player in the streaming music game. Granted, Apple Music has been around a few years and we have all mostly been ignoring it, but now the game is changing as they begin to compete with Netflix, Spotify, and all means of original streaming entertainment. Remember a few years ago when all of a sudden there was an “iTunes radio” on your device? Yea, i know, i ignored it also.
Fast forward a few years, and here we are, Apple is making original content. That’s right, their new approach is “free sh*t” and big name content. This is when I start to get interested, particularly as a fan of that company and the products they create. You have to imagine Apple original content will rise to, or at least compete with the likes of Netflix as it comes of age, particularly with Jimmy Iovine behind the wheel. With big names like Kygo in the music world, and popular segments like James Corden’s Carpool Karaoke, they are after the Millennials in a big way!
I’m still acclimating and getting my bearings, but I must say, I’m so far pleasantly surprised. The first bit of content I sampled was great – Kygo:Stole the Show, a documentary about his career and personal growth. I’m getting pretty much everything I would get from Spotify, and its free for 3 months, so what do I have to lose? Give it a go and leave your comments below!