I agree completely and hate the whole “I have infinite music and therefore must listen to the PERFECT album right now”(then I just “scroll” through music for an hour😭) A lot of (honestly not very “good”albums) have incredible sentimental value to me because I bought the album, didn’t have enough money to buy music for another month and so it was one of very few other cds I could play in the car.
It's the same with movies. I love the process of selecting a movie and putting it in the player. The main menu boots up, playing the main theme with clips from the movie. It's an experience. One memorable moment was with Zack Snyder's Justice League on Blu-ray. At the end of disc one, a card appears saying "Justice continues on Disc 2," with a film canister in rubble. It's a small thing, but it was really cool! This also works well for shows. I put in a disc, watch three episodes, then have to get up to change discs. It stops me from binging too much TV, but I still feel satisfied with what I've watched.
I’ll always be a proponent of physical media but I’ve never felt this way in my almost 2 decades using iTunes/Apple Music. But I’ve always had bizarre listening habits so my playlists and mix CDs/tapes have been eclectic. But grounding yourself with finite options definitely can help if you get overwhelmed or distracted easily. It’s the same reason I’ve switched to using an electric typewriter when writing when I can help it. It disconnects me from the endless void of the internet.
100% agree, esp on the context that physical albums provide for the music, both in terms of like inspiration and contribution, and in terms of the music itself. There are a lot of albums I love that I definitely would not have enjoyed as much if I had heard an individual track outside of the context of the album
It's good to see young people seeing what we always had for 100 years... until people started stealing music instead of purchasing it....and why us older people don't take streaming seriously. You can't replace real physical products with the internet.
Tatsuro Yamashita has gone on record to say that he will never put his music on streaming services so it is indeed Tatsuro himself giving out the copyright strike orders. This is only backed up as even Mariya Takeuchi has some of her albums on streaming.
I'm stuck in a dilemma because my brother hates physical media and believes that Spotify is the future of music. He also doesn't like CDs and anything retro like vinyl. He kinda " forces " my family to use Spotify. But I'm kind of the opposite of that. He still thinks Streaming is the best.
YES!!!! DVD menus and stuff are such a lost thing too! My collection currently consists of La La Land and random Solo Beatles documentaries lol, but it’s definitely something I want to keep building
Do purchase the "Is The Is Are" vinyl by Diiv if you like their music at all. The vinyl pressing comes with a beautiful art book that doubles as an abstract lyric book.
