3034538, I get this question often. Posted by LeroyBumpkin, Fri Sep-10-21 03:32 PM
Few reasons I don't mess with streaming services.
1. I love supporting artists by buying vinyl and digital downloads.
2. I listen to a lot of unreleased bootleg albums that are not on streaming.
3. I don't want the music I'm listening to to suddenly be gone because of a record label politics and licensing.
4. In college when I bought a CD, I would immediately dub it to tape so I could walk to class with my walkman. In 96/97 I had The Roots "Illadelph Halflife" and Mint Condition's "Definition Of A Band", and I killed those tapes for the better part of the school year. I know them back and forth.
When I first got an iPOD and I converted my entire music collection to mp3, my listening habits changed dramatically. I was initially hyped to see the stats of how often I played a song, etc, but then those same numbers made me realize I was only listening to like 20 songs out of thousands.
Basically, I went from really spending time with an album when it was on CD to just playing a handful of songs I liked. I needed to get back to the idea of spending time with the music.
I was recently on a shoot/road trip with some millennials, and I played Solange's "A Seat At The Table" LP, and after about 3 songs they asked me, "Is this a playlist?" "No, this is just the album." They didn't realize all these songs were on ONE album. The conversation with them made me realize they'd listen to a Solange station, or a playlist built around all of her songs, but never really thought about just playing her album.
5. I like to have a hand in selecting every piece of music that's in my collection. I know if it's in my collection, it's there because I read an article, heard something from a documentary, read some liner notes, saw a recommendation from a message board, whatever. It's there because I put it there. *I* want to be the algorithm.
6. I have enough subscriptions already. And again, I barely have time to listen to the stuff I *DO* buy.
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