You may have to give up your family home’s wall-hogging TV and your mum’s famous mac and cheese when you go back to school, but if there’s one thing you’ll be sure to take with you, it’s access to all the world’s music at your fingertips. Indeed, music streaming services more or less make our phones and laptops unlimited jukeboxes for a mere tenner a month or – good news, students – almost half that price if you are over 16 years old and go to college or university.
Now, Spotify’s student plan is famously good value and likely has more excellently soundtracked house parties around the world to answer for than it does songs in its all-encompassing catalogue. But rival service Tidal, which Jay-Z kickstarted nearly ten years ago, is vying for students’ monthly subscriptions and actually has a cracking case for doing so for three reasons:
