303abuser there is something appealing about this, as it would mean going back to the days of buying an album and actually listening to it multiple times. The amount of albums I wasn’t too fussed about on first listen, but a few listens later and I loved them. I’m guilty today in not giving albums enough listening time to appreciate them as on Spotify I tend to listen to far too much and bin stuff off too quickly

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      Homegrove yeah, i figure i’ll use the free plays to figure out what i want to buy and just save up purchases for once a month.

      being an invalid for the last month has made me realize i spend too much time with tech and living a little more like it’s 25 years ago is a good idea. buy albums instead of streaming, make more music on hardware, use my phone for calls and work, read more and watch less, etc.

        303abuser just buy a new album every week

        Fuckin double defo, is the right answer!

            RichM actually listening to it multiple times

            Boom!

              Amps and even one a week is a lot of music over the year. i love tech, but i hate these tech companies and their predatory business models. it’s time for me to change the way i do things.

                303abuser
                I only buy albums these days. And almost all of them I purchase from Bandcamp unless I can’t find it. In which case in get it from Juno.

                  seems like a better idea to own things vs renting too.

                  I’ll add to this the idea of a ‘process’ too. If you own the physical media, finding the cd or the vinyl, taking it out of the sleeve, putting it in / on and pressing play etc. gives you that level of interaction where you’re handling the thing, looking at the artwork, maybe reading the sleeve notes or the like, and I think it all helps with your involvement with the music, more so than clicking a bit of digital text on a screen.

                    i really miss that part of it. i still have all of the gu sleeves and long boxes and it was part of the experience to unwrap it, read the liner notes while listening.

                    Only ever bought the odd GU mixes as I was spending all my money on vinyl but I did enjoy reading the sleeve notes on the mixed CDs

                      Amps
                      I assume you’re making an exemption for John Terry’s monkey pictures?

                        PS. Zacko along shortly with some indecipherable boomer meme

                        Dubman i bought everything from prague through toronto and maybe one or two after that. i may actually go back and rip them into higher quality files at some point, although i’m a bit lazy for that.

                            Homegrove it takes soooo long. although i should try before i lose my last working cd drive.

                              Dubmick the Argentinian peso is quite good value and V to the P the N to sign up

                              Not really much point in having money there, might as well just dance for stuff!!

                                Not buying more but all the more reason to keep the ones I have

                                  alistair when we got the house I bought a smaller CD-shelf (it fits about a hundred), and went through my collection. Tried to pick ones that are not available in streaming, and left the rest in the boxes in the garage. Lots of old mix CDs in other words.