I haven't really bought any music, digital or physical, in about ten years or so. The convenience of streaming took over.
But, in recent times, I've started to think about this from a few different angles. In previous years, when I bought a new album (CD or vinyl), the album felt important to actually sit down and listen to, and look at the liner notes and lyrics. The music didn't feel as disposable as streaming music feels. Another thing is that when buying an album, the artist actually gets a decent cut, however tiny money nowadays is involved in album sales.
Now I only have to try to find some space at home for CD and LP players, and some more space for the albums that I have still have in storage, waiting.
Yes :) another thing is that albums were expensive, you could only afford so many (once a month for me), so you'd spend more time listening to it, appreciating it and getting into some songs on the album that weren't instant hits, but slow burners, sometimes these would end up your favorites.
With streaming, its all vapor, listen to 5 seconds, "meh, next". So artists play it safe and make everything simple and uncomplicated.
I can remember certain albums that "got stuck" in the CD player for a long time, being played constantly. And those "deep cuts" didn't feel any different than those tracks released as singles.
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