You didn’t hear that they want you to own nothing (in digital media)?
Comment on DVDs are the new vinyl records: Why Gen Z is embracing physical media
NewNewAugustEast@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
Because they are too computer illiterate to simply download what they want?
MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
Steamymoomilk@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
Its the fact of unrevokable ownership.
I can buy and mp3 off amazon. But if amazon decides to take down the artist i spent money and lost acess to what i bought.
If i buy the CD, i rip it and put it on my navidrome server. I own it forever, if the server explodes or somebody claims i dont own the music, i go to my storage room and pull out my BIG ASS container of CDs.
I OWN A PERSONAL LICENSE TO MY BOUGHT AND PAID FOR MUSIC ON PHYSICAL MEDIA THAT CANNOT BE PURPOSELY OR INNCIDENTALLY REMOTELY DELETED. NOBODY CAN STOP ME FROM LISTENING TO MY MUSIC COLLECTION, NOT SOME CORPRATE FUCK RAISING A SUPSCRIPTION PRICE.
I started a year ago collecting physical media, and i can genuinely say owning it makes it sound and look better.
I seldom have any subscriptions, and the one thing that hurts is when i play the mental game of “ok so i could pay for it still which would cost a decent amount of money” or i could not.
“Does this service provide me enough value for the economic loss of my personal funds?”
But not having to “bend over” because spotify is doing evil shit and i dont want to support.
Funny thing is i recently read about the AI bullshit and shit there doing with Spotify. Told my friends and they didnt want to leave spotify because of there playlists.
Theres a service that takes playlists and converts them amoung services for $2.
Both friends have been enjoying the shit about tidal! And gladly cancled there Spotify
luluberlue@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 day ago
Counterpoint : I can buy DRM free .flac from qobuz and actually own them, unrevokably, and store them on my jellyfin server. Absolutely no need for physical optical disks here.
littleomid@feddit.org 19 hours ago
Yes, music. Can you buy DRM free movies anywhere?
luluberlue@lemmy.blahaj.zone 18 hours ago
Not that I know of, sadly.
NewNewAugustEast@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
If you download something, nobody can take that away either. By getting the physical copy you are just creating extra steps.
I am making the point that it seems we have a generation that doesn’t understand how to go and get files and/or share them.
Nothing I said was about subscriptions.
Personally, I could do without the physical media, that is just going backwards and I don’t want to own all that crap. But it also means the only services I use are ones I make myself so I can listen to my collection anywhere in the world and on any device I own. But its my service.
Halcyon@discuss.tchncs.de 21 hours ago
Maybe pay the artists?
NewNewAugustEast@lemmy.zip 21 hours ago
You can pay the artists even more if they don’t have to spend on packaging.
And at what point do you quite paying them? For older groups, you buy the tape, then the CD, then the extended remix, then vinyl, and on and on with half of them seeing only pennies every step of the way anyway.