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finally having my “buying and listening to music” phase but this time the music i'm buying and listening to is actually good? anyone heard of this
very appreciative of the itunes store still existing in 2024 because i am a stubborn little fucker who refuses to change
i'm not going to preach at you about the virtues of buying music, it just happens to be convenient for me personally and it feels good, but i will say that having to go out of your way to actually “obtain” an entire “album” does change your relationship to it in a good way
my favourite album of all time is probably still “Nexus-2060” by “CAPSULE” btw. honestly it's mostly because of a single song that i'm still in love with, but i love the way that particular album is a “concept” not just a collection of songs
put it another way: “obtaining” whole albums by “other” means is probably better than listening to stuff exclusively via spotify or youtube
https://social.noyu.me/@hikari/statuses/01JE9B77A5P6KVD8ZMFPR213R6
@hikari due to its early history, to this day music is the only kind of art you can easily buy DRM free online
@hikari i honestly have trouble listening to music singles; the Package of the album is very important to me
@hikari Preaching to the choir here ^^;
Oddly enough I barely bought music in my teens (a lot of what I listened to outright was hard to buy or wasn't sold even before streaming took over), but as an adult indie Bandcamp releases have started taking over more of my audio library
(even if the bulk of it is still game soundtracks and free remixes and mashups and the like)
I also went from a single track kinda gal to more of an appreciator of albums, mostly because of The Protomen, whose Rock Opera loosely based on the Megaman games has some solid standalone tracks but truly comes alive when listend to sequentially for the whole story to unfold and in particular how each track flows into, or builds up into, the next.
I still buy or download a fair few individual tracks, but these days I'm willing to give whole albums more of a listen even if it initially doesn't vibe with me beyond 1 or 2 tracks and I sometimes find through occasional repeated listening a 3rd track will start vibing with me.