>>Growing up on vinyl, 8-trak, cassettes, and CD's, ownership
>>of a physical copy of your music was a huge deal.
>
>You play vinyl on a record player, 8-trak in an 8-trak player,
>cassettes in a cassette player, and CDs in a CD player. All of
>those physical copies are based on the medium that you can
>play them in.
>
>If someone only listens to music on their iPhone/Android/etc.
>device and their laptop, then Spotify works for them. It isn't
>*that* much different from owning physical copies, since I
>have access to the music on the medium that I regularly use. A
>lot of people have fully converted to digital music now, so it
>works perfectly for them.
>
>stone_phalanges described it pretty well as the Netflix of
>music, if Netflix had everything coming out.


And when a copyright holder decides they no longer want their music on Spotify, then what? You lose it.

With a physical medium, this can never happen. A record label can't walk into my house and take an album, CD or cassette back because they feel like it.

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I miss Tha D... But I'll never move back there.


R.I.P. Disco D