False equivalence. This is a convo about ownership. Spend $10.99/mo on CDs and in a year you've got 12 CDs. Yours forever even if you go broke and can't buy more. Spend $10.99/mo on streaming and then have to cancel? You've spent the same $ and you have...nothing. These are not equivalent systems.
G. Willow Wilson
I don't believe these complaints are really genuine in general but this one is especially specious. For $10.99 a month I get access to basically all recorded music. This is somehow inferior to the previous system where for $10-15 I could buy one (1) album
People don't long for "inconvenience." They long for permanence. And though streaming services may be convenient, people are waking up to the fact that we are paying rent-seeking middle men month after month for things we will never actually own.
G. Willow Wilson
People are pining for old technologies—CD players, VCRs, Walkmans. What’s behind our longing for inconvenience? www.newyorker.com/culture/essa...
People are pining for old technologies—CD players, VCRs, Walkmans. What’s behind our longing for inconvenience?
