I have come to think of Spotify only as a discovery/introduction service. It finds me music I like, and I go buy physical media or MP3 from shops that give me d

I have come to think of Spotify only as a discovery/introduction service. It finds me music I like, and I go buy physical media or MP3 from shops that give me downloads in my browser (Bandcamp, Bleep, Boomkat...). I use it the way I used to use radio and record shops. I’m in my 40s so I grew up at a time where this was common. Record shops were on the high streets in most towns in the UK through the 80s and 90s. In my teens I started to dig deeper, into niche, side street record shops for off-mainstream music. These days, it seems all record shops are on side streets.