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.
I’ve grown content with not having to store my music for listening. And I hate to admit it but I have gotten bad at finding new and Spotify us all like " you like this, check this out. That said my listening is done at work and while driving. If I want music at home I pick an instrument and play some. But saying there’s too much access to music is horseshit. Everyone gets something different out of music, and it’s nobody’s business but theirs what that is. Even if it is just background noise. You want to know why a song exists, I’m picking apart the chord structure and lyrical devices. Or giving my day theme music. Or maybe just knowing that today was a good day.
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.
Ever since the mp3.com forum conversations back in the 90s: more access drives more consumption. More consumption drives more demand. People who get used to listening to more music, want more music to listen to.
Yes, and?