I personally love my collection (records, CD, digital) and enjoy sharing the experience with friends. I don’t use streaming unless you count soma fm at work. Sure, I’ll use YouTube to listen to some albums I don’t own, but if I truly like it I’ll buy or download it, usually on bandcamp or direct from artist if I can.

For me, I don’t believe the human brain was ever made for this level of stimulation (we shouldn’t really have 24/7 access to social media either. Go back to the “family PC” model). People have very little connection to music anymore becuase there’s too much and its too easy to access. I can barely remember all the members names in my favorite bands or all their albums. There’s little chance anyone even knows the artists of the millions of songs they’re streaming, or the story behind them.

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    10 hours ago

    I think some people enjoy the thrill of discovery more than the depth of experience. Which is fine. No judgment.

    Personally I’d rather have 10 albums that mean a lot than 100,000 albums I listen to once.

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      8 hours ago

      I’d rather have 3,000 albums (30,000 songs, 120,000 minutes -> 2000 hours) of music that I listen to anywhere from once a week to once every couple of years.