After 40 hours of free mobile music, you will have to pay Pandora

I've had a yearly subscription for a couple of years. They've replaced radio for me and I haven't touched my mp3 library in years. If I'm coding then Pandora is playing. We even have a Pandora channel that we used at our wedding reception.

Between coding, driving, and the gym I probably listen to them 8-10 hours a day, everyday. That's not even counting how much the kids and wife listen to it (if only I could get them to stick with a naming convention for their channels) A subscription is $36 dollars a year, just pay for it already.

You know what? If you're listening to over FORTY HOURS of Pandora per month, they deserve to be tossed a buck.

edit: Glad to see the snarky title changed.

Did they get rid of this 99 cent fee structure at some point? I switched to Spotify a while back, but when I stopped using Pandora over a year ago, this 99 cent fee for 40 hours+ of use was already the case.

I never really felt like 99 cents was a ridiculous amount to ask for from someone like myself who was using their service a lot every month.

So they're rolling back to their old payment structure? Sounds good, I was fine paying $0.99 sometimes when I went over.