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.
Yep and thats fine. I also just like to own my music and not have it solely controlled by billionaires.
Nothing wrong with some zone out stuff during work. Soma FM or bandcamp ambient artists are great for that. I can’t listen to really engaging music while working usually.
Oh, I sing out loud to every song I know the words of. I work in a factory. Most of my work takes more back than brain. I will also genre flop several times over a day. Sometimes I listen to whole records, but other times I enjoy themed playlists. I don’t own enough hard drive to contain my listening, my phone sure couldn’t hold it all. And say I get a suggestion from a coworker or if I have to unload a delivery and the truck driver mentions a band I never heard of, I look it up on Spotify, and I have only managed to stump it once. I can’t argue with that.