I am planning to get into this whole record player thing just because I can enjoy music and focus on just listening to what I like. These music streaming platfo

I am planning to get into this whole record player thing just because I can enjoy music and focus on just listening to what I like. These music streaming platforms apply too much dark patterns to trap me into just keep browsing and keep checking new/unknown and mostly shitty music that it is genuinely frustrating. In fact I had a good deal going - finally had a decent collection of playlists on Spotify and I enjoyed it for few months but then they keep changing their UX and everything else keeps coming in the way - podcasts, some smart shuffle of the library curated by me. One mistake click and there you have unknown god-knows-what songs in your library and you are wondering where the fuck they come from. Then one song you clicked by mistake or forgot to skip or dislike and for next few weeks your entire home screen is filled with shit like that. I mean yes one can say just go to the library and skip the home page and recommendation but you see it every time you open it and distracts and disgusts. I mean it has just one job - let me listen to the music I want and get out of my way and it keeps putting its foot in the cracks, not on every opportunity, but by manufacturing opportunities. Apple Music has its own downsides. It's just sad. The most I loved my music experience when I used to listen to using the radio and cassette players. I never got into CDs - it was straight to curated MP3 collection from cassettes. So the hope is vinyls will at least some of that experience and the feeling of my own curated collection. One downside is vinyls are prohibitively expensive and no easy to procure in India. So no the convenience of streaming services is not really a convenience - it's just we pay to hear and see an ad platform or listen to explicit ads to again experience an ad platform if you don't pay a fee. That is really what the likes of Netflix and Spotify are - ad platforms.