Asking people to calm down is a form of insult, you know?
I will take this as a case of mutually mistaken insults on either side and raise a virtual beer to good music and audio.
No, it is not sensitivity to CDs at all or any identity connected to it. That would be missing the point. And you are still missing the point talking about 8 tracks. So, just stop and listen before keeping throwing those things around.
It is more of an ongoing debate elsewhere as well between owning vs renting content that will have significant impact on how content will be available in the future. So educating people on the value of and need for owning vs renting when they don’t see the former is a necessary thing. Harping on possible theft as a reason to subscribe than own (CD being one form of it) seemed silly for reasons I stated. You took it as an insult and escalated it. Happens in forums.
Most people, I know of at least, have already ripped CDs to keep it digitized and the physical CDs are a good backup form. Keeping a backup in cloud while paying for the storage isn’t financially smart either. So theft is not even an issue.
I would suspect that in this particular group which spends probably several thousands of dollars on their audio chain and so likely to be seriously interested in music beyond “casual listening of the next one on the charts while doing Instagram and Facebook”, would likely own a good library of music that has withstood test of time and they would continue to be selective in their choices. For this, owning makes a lot more fiscal sense than subscribing. That kind of music does not get produced every month. So you are paying continuously for the same content most of the time.
People vested in the streaming industry might feel otherwise but while they serve a purpose for some types of listening, they contribute to escalating costs of consuming music to feed their business models and not because the musicians necessarily see the benefit of it. If there is no pushback to the view that no one needs to buy/own content, then that is the model the industry will evolve to. That is a bad thing.
I will take this as a case of mutually mistaken insults on either side and raise a virtual beer to good music and audio.
No, it is not sensitivity to CDs at all or any identity connected to it. That would be missing the point. And you are still missing the point talking about 8 tracks. So, just stop and listen before keeping throwing those things around.
It is more of an ongoing debate elsewhere as well between owning vs renting content that will have significant impact on how content will be available in the future. So educating people on the value of and need for owning vs renting when they don’t see the former is a necessary thing. Harping on possible theft as a reason to subscribe than own (CD being one form of it) seemed silly for reasons I stated. You took it as an insult and escalated it. Happens in forums.
Most people, I know of at least, have already ripped CDs to keep it digitized and the physical CDs are a good backup form. Keeping a backup in cloud while paying for the storage isn’t financially smart either. So theft is not even an issue.
I would suspect that in this particular group which spends probably several thousands of dollars on their audio chain and so likely to be seriously interested in music beyond “casual listening of the next one on the charts while doing Instagram and Facebook”, would likely own a good library of music that has withstood test of time and they would continue to be selective in their choices. For this, owning makes a lot more fiscal sense than subscribing. That kind of music does not get produced every month. So you are paying continuously for the same content most of the time.
People vested in the streaming industry might feel otherwise but while they serve a purpose for some types of listening, they contribute to escalating costs of consuming music to feed their business models and not because the musicians necessarily see the benefit of it. If there is no pushback to the view that no one needs to buy/own content, then that is the model the industry will evolve to. That is a bad thing.