>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.
>

That millennial “playlist” point is wild. I barely use playlists though - I mostly use it for listening to albums, so my habits haven’t changed too much.

#5 is an interesting point. I definitely feel that.