This. My appreciation for classical music hockey sticked after things like Spotify became available. As a result I am now spending several hundreds of dollars t

This. My appreciation for classical music hockey sticked after things like Spotify became available. As a result I am now spending several hundreds of dollars to see artists perform live. Hopefully this helps also ensure a greater share of my money goes directly to the artists themselves. Before widespread music streaming, my interest in the space was barely growing and rarely ever more than a passing interest. This is largely due to the fact that discovery was inconvenient - as a comparatively niche (and vast) musical genre, it was harder to download. Buying the music was out of the question, it is prohibitively expensive to develop an appreciation for the genre - if one album costs $15, then just all of Beethoven's Symphonies alone would be $135 and only for one interpretation of each. My total lifetime expenditure towards Classical Music is probably approaching $1000, and the rate of spending is only accelerating. I can't help but think that if it weren't for things like Spotify and YouTube making it more accessible, I would not be spending even 1% of this on it. I wish more people could see the bigger picture when it comes to things like this...