something tells me it might be time to go back to burning CDs and putting them in those huge CD booklets that gather dust on the bookshelf under the desk as a backup copy in case your original ever gets scratched and stops working and keeping a notebook with all the songs you love and making mix tapes with tape recorders and buying tickets to go see live music at these local indie places and buying merchandise to support the band with real cash money from the tip jar at the café gig and putting it right back in the tip jar for the band and going to the public library and using their interlibrary loan service to request and receive exactly what you’re looking for and borrowing audiobooks on tape and playing them in the CD player in the car radio and anyway musicians don’t make a fair amount of money from streaming platforms and while buying music digitally from sources that do pay musicians fairly is fine and totally fair it’s also nowhere near as sexy as owning physical media forever okay thanks for not ratting me out to the cops mmmwah bye