This question came up at work today

[kirbypuckett]

Autotune is awesome.

I'd do it for free!

[evvandflow]

its like asking how much would you need to get paid to live w/o your significant other for a year.... if youre married. or live without your penis if youre not.

[saxamaphone]

Does it count if you listen to it while asleep? Like if you popped in an album before going to bed and sleeping through it? Or do you have to be conscious? Would one be expected to listen closely to the words and absorb their meaning?

[patron]

Also, would it be frowned upon if I did a Kickstarter project for this? I'd do it for $10,000, easy.

Go for it.

[controlthebleeding]

If your free time for a year is worth more than $500k, you probably don't know what it's like to be broke and poor. Any poor person or someone struggling with money would say they'd do it easily, no questions asked, for $500k. To poor people that's like working for 40 years at a shitty ass job. Why wouldn't you suffer through some music for a year for that. That would pay off my debt, buy myself a guitar rig, and get a porn star (amber rayne- because it would make a great story) for a evening, buy a nice house, and still wind up with enough for retirement. All for only 10 hours of day of drowning out t pain (and friends). To me that's life changing.

[lifebystereo]

I'd do it, but somewhere in the "never have to work again" realm. I mean, I did once listen to "Right Round" by Flo Rida on repeat for three hours, for free.

[Guest errolwest]

I could think of 1 million + worse things id do for 500,00$ seriously, if you cant handle tpain for a year for half a million, you probably already have too much money.

[mcm1610]

Exactly.

[AlexH.]

Would I have to leave social situations where other music is playing? If not, hell yes I would listen to just T Pain all day for a year. I'd do it for 50k. Plus, at the end of the year, I would have T Pain's entire discography memorized, and could find some way to use that knowledge to pick up chicks.

[mcm1610]

Yea, he's got some smooth lines here and there.

I could probably listen to "I'm on a Boat" for at least a week straight by itself.

[sgoodcore]

I could think of 1 million + worse things id do for 500,00$ seriously, if you cant handle tpain for a year for half a million, you probably already have too much money.

You realize you're asking for a realistic answer to a wholly unrealistic question, right? If this became reality, as stated before economic principles would work to drive the price down a good amount. I for one make a good enough living I feel comfortable with not doing this for anything less than a ridiculous sum of money.

For some people, whether you agree or not, wasting a year of their life on horrid music is a big, big deal. Maybe a big enough deal to drive them pretty crazy. That's their opinion based on their life. Not sure how you can disagree with that or say that means they already have "too much" money. For a good amount of people music is their therapy.

[suburbanargyle]

I'd like to know how Scott could do his job without listening to any new releases or anything for a whole year.

[suburbanargyle]

Also, when I was in boot camp, I had to go over 2 months with NO music, and it absolutely KILLED me. It would be really tough for me to be without good music to listen to for that long. On the other hand, big money is big money.

[andrew13]

i keep listening to the freaknik soundtrack, so that on loop for a year i'd easily for for 100K

[oakland]

Really dude? Do you understand how much easier your life would be if you were handed a nice house that was completely paid for? That's not worth listening to shitty music for a year?

I said I would buy a house with my payment as well, but my co-worker was surprised when I said I would pay off a smaller house in full, rather than use the entire sum as a down payment on something huge.

I'm with you. I'd rather pay off my small house, which is 120 years old and remodeled by myself, than buy some big-ass piece of junk McMansion.

[lifebystereo]

I can't even imagine how liberating it would be to just straight-up own a place and never have to worry about mortgage/rent payments again.

its like asking how much would you need to get paid to live w/o your significant other for a year.... if youre married. or live without your penis if youre not.

Someone should be paying me for doing this already!