I thought about it and music is my most consumed media between music, movies and games.
I listen to music on my commute back and forth from work daily as well as for background noise while gaming or sitting at home.
But is it worth collecting?
Well... it’s always at my finger tips - all of it - and for free. Ignoring all the services dedicated to it, if you have an internet connection you can just search whatever you’re looking for on YouTube.
I’m not into vinyl, that wasn’t a thing I was exposed to growing up.
I have CDs but they have just sat in a cupboard gathering dust literally for years. I have Good Charlotte, Evanesence, Fallout Boy etc. literally from when they came out and the CDs haven’t crossed my mind at all.
I own them I guess, they’re backs ups I guess, I can rip the mp3 whenever I suppose. But PCs are getting made without disc drives now and any physical music collection I make is cheaply available via a streaming service.
Moreover those streaming services give access to millions of songs any song I could ever think of more or less so are much more cost effective than individual album purchases.
Public sentiment has shifted away from CDs - “who still buys CDs?” The man on the street would ask.
Why then would I want to acquire music?
I love music, a lot of it. But I can love it on my phone with a streaming app.
You’re left with the pride of ownership I suppose. But with that, while I fondly read off the band names on the spines of the pile of CDs I do have, I know that owning more would just take up more space on things I’m never going to touch.
If I bought / collected music I’d be getting clutter and something that I either have access to already either free on the internet or included in a streaming app subscription