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Originally Posted by !@#$%!
paul mccartney & the wings circa 1979?
i dont fucking know
wtf is “buying”?
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YOU KNOW WHAT IT IS YOU FUCKING FUCK. I mean, um, I'm gonna quote
Christgau on this one, not because I worship the guy as some here seem to think, but because I agree with his answer:
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[Q] Why do you still bother buying CDs? Why not just save yourself money and shelf space by streaming everything? -- Jake L, Montreal
[A] As I've said before here, I believe that streaming dematerializes music as well as depriving it of economic reality. It makes music harder to perceive as work and also as something with an existence outside of the listener's head. I suspect that's one reason why I find it difficult to write more than a few dozen words about a streamed album. For me streaming is preliminary processing; psychologically, to listen deep I need an object I can see and handle. Plus packaging does often add dimension to the experience and comparison listening, in which I use a changer to sneak up on my ears with a related album, is much easier to manage with physical product.
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