I used to be with you on that ... but getting of my lazy bum to actually pay for Spotify - and looking past all the fair/unfair issues bad/good corporate stuff ...

The ability to browse music is very powerful.

I lost my 1 Soundgarden CD 20 years ago. Now I can listen to all their albums.

You can do the entire Beatles catalogue <- this is a different form of listening.

Discover artists I would never have otherwise heard of.

It has it's downsides, but I dont think CD was 'better'.

We just have an imperfect situation.

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AlexandrB 3 hours ago | parent [-]

And the biggest part of the money you pay the streaming platform goes to neither Soundgarden, nor the remaining Beatles, nor to those artists you discovered but to Taylor Swift[1]. This is in stark contrast to how CD economics worked.

As someone who spent a lot of his youth carefully avoiding big label acts and trying to support small artists, this is what bothers me the most: there is no way to do that anymore if you use streaming.

[1] https://mertbulan.com/2025/08/10/why-paying-for-spotify-most...

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bluegatty 2 hours ago | parent [-]

I don't like how the sausage is made, I just like the sausage, is all I'm saying.

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intended an hour ago | parent [-]

I too, like my meat and not the killing that it requires.

One day, someone will have to face the reckoning of our preferences vs our values.

May I be the one with the courage to meet it; failing which, not be standing around when the bill is due.

The motto of our era.

	▲	bluegatty 41 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		I think we can have our cake and eat it on this one. The economics line up not entirely unreasonably. Mostly.