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.
Ever?
I don’t agree with the op necessarily, I’ve found value in having virtually unlimited access to music, but i listen to the same music all the time.
I mean shit, if i find a new song I like i start with it for the next several times I listen to music with the rest shuffled from my “liked” songs. If a song doesn’t hit the right way I’ll start it over. If it hits too well it gets played again right away.