By Samuel Smith, Opinions Editor

I love money. Money and buying things. Money and buying things and getting a discount when buying those things. Money and buying things and getting a discount when buying those things… and music.

Sounds like there isn’t much of a correlation between discounts and music, right?

Oh boy. Wait until I tell you capitalism has its upsides.

For every Amazon Prime membership comes a feature. A cute little feature. A feature for every Pearl Jam-loving, Radiohead-thrashing and Nirvana-seeking punk rocker. Be your vice The Drums, The Kinks, The Growlers or The Killers. Or your passion the Beach Fossils, Basement, Beach House or Bruce Springsteen.

This unbelievably handy feature is Amazon Music.

While it may not have the newest uploads as quickly as Spotify, Amazon Music gets them eventually. Apple Music makes me unexplainably uncomfortable to use, namely because I can never remember my Apple ID password, but I definitely therapy-shop enough to have memorized my Amazon password. Plus, with Amazon Music you can listen to what you want, whenever you want, as all music streaming services should allow for…

[Cough cough, Pandora go home, cough cough.]

Sorry  bronchitis or something.

Prime Music allows people to listen to individual songs on repeat, whole albums in order, a collection of songs from a singular artist in the form of a “REDISCOVER” playlist, and even a shuffled collection of songs that are similar to whichever song you started with.

Some days I’m feeling one song, on repeat, for hours on end, and Prime allows me to scratch that peculiar itch in my brain. Other days I get in an experimental mood and want to discover something new, so the “REDISCOVER” playlists work for me. Prime allows for whichever form of music enjoyment the listener would prefer.

The cost of such high-quality accommodations for all of a listener’s needs, assuming that the listener would like all available music options instead of just a few, is $8.99 for Prime members and $9.99 for non-members when a listener opts for the Unlimited add-on.

So long as you can get past the fact that you need an Amazon Prime account to really take advantage of Amazon Music – and I understand it must be terribly difficult to accept discounts on an abundance of online shopping goods – I believe Amazon Music is the music platform for you.

Senior Samuel Smith can be reached at 23smithsa22@daretolearn.org.