Collecting music is weird now
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I used to own a lot of cds, most of them are stored somewhere. I usually listen to Soundcloud. Recently cancelled a $5/mo monstercat subscription that allowed me to stream and download as much as I wanted from their catalog.
The only reason I buy vinyl is the charm and permanence of it. Easier to skip around with digital. It is nice to put on a record and let it play through.
Music, in the volume that we are able to catalog and access is disposable. I can’t think of very many songs I want to hear again years or months down the road. Several listens when I find it then on to new stuff in a few days/weeks is how I’ve been maybe the last ten years.
Given the amount of music produced and available to listen to vs the number of hours in a human life, I wonder how much more music exists that we will never hear.