Sign of the times. When renowned alto sax player Soweto Kinch gave a concert at the Royal Academy of Music in London recently (largely without mics, as per RAM policy), he ended with the track 'Syncomania' from his recent album, The Black Peril. As the applause died down he suggested to the audience that they listen to the whole album. 'It's available on Spotify,' he promoted. Just think about that. Listening on Spotify is free (if you are happy to hear some adverts, that is) or ad-free and all-you-can-eat for a monthly subscription fee that is less than the cost of a CD. Anyone with a home computer running software that is free-to-download and easy-to-use (which I'm not going to name) can capture the stream, edit out the adverts and permanently burn it to a CD or copy it to USB stick.
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