I haven't bought vinyl in at least 15 years, but I'm pleased to see any physical media still maintaining a place in our lives. For me, it's not the nostalgia fa

I haven't bought vinyl in at least 15 years, but I'm pleased to see any physical media still maintaining a place in our lives. For me, it's not the nostalgia factor, or the atmosphere created by physical media, it's purely about the availability of music. I have a huge collection of hip-hop vinyl and CDs. A significant proportion of my favourites are not available on Spotify. We're not talking about niche artists either - releases by plenty of well-known artists from the 90s and 2000s have some kind of rights issue that has kept them off streaming platforms. Just recently one of the best, and seminal 00s hip-hop albums has been lost from Spotify. Either all this fantastic music is gone and lost forever (because not on Spotify = does not exist), or we keep the CDs, vinyl, and ripped MP3 collections. People think that Spotify is basically all of music. They see the music streaming services as having solved the 'unified catalogue' problem where the video streaming services are still balkanised. This is far from the truth though, so much is missing from Spotify. What I really miss is not the vinyl, it's the completeness of Napster in 2000.