I believe this is the important part "I want without ordering a CD (that I couldn't afford as a kid)" Spotify makes it cheap to use without ownership - like ub

I believe this is the important part "I want without ordering a CD (that I couldn't afford as a kid)" Spotify makes it cheap to use without ownership - like uber basically - and millions do like that. I blame the greedy music business that really didn't want to sell singles. They've been forced to change - partially thanks to amazon and apple - but they embraced the change too late, and instead change was forced upon them. The music biz could of made a version of limewire where people could pay for songs at a fair price and get top quality.. take advantage of the curation people were doing, and more - but they went to courts to block instead. There's more than 2 kinds of people. Some people voted with their wallets for MusicMatch Jukebox 7.1 - then yahoo took it, ruined it, then killed it. Many people are voting with their wallets to borrow music from a fancy playlist company - that's cool -and I'm glad it exists. I prefer to own music that I can put on different devices myself and access anywhere anytime without an internet connection or worrying that my license key is not valid. FI android did AirDrop I think the tide would be different. Amazon an excellent buy digital audio options (via computer) - sadly they make it very hard to download and own digital mp3s using the android app - I get that some of these decisions are based on the whole - push them to the subscription /rent to use model where we win having lots of people who use it little.. but I prefer to download to the computer unzip and plugin a cable to transfer. So while tech of the yesteryear is fine, some of the 'modern tech' is purposefully handicapping in some ways - and sometimes they are doing so to keep people hooked on drip-to-use-not-own-rent-forever models. The good is that more people can enjoy more music - so yay spotify. The bad is that I don't think it's as good for the bands, and depending on the magic wifi can leave you high and dry when you need tunes the most - but at least you'll have a few dollars in your pocket :) That rent and never own economy is good for some things, but it's not for everything for everybody.