Streaming services trade ownership for easier access to music and movies

I’m a big consumer of YouTube videos.

YouTube has replaced television for me since it allows me to choose what I want to watch and when I want to watch it.

Like most, I subscribe to several YouTube content creators and, likely unsurprisingly, many are related to music.

One of my favourite channels is hosted by British singer-songwriter-guitarist Mary Spender.

Her latest video is an excellent overview of the state of recorded music today.

I’ll start by asking a few questions directed at “mature” music lovers.

What did you do with your record collection?

What did you do with your cassette tape collection?

What did you do with your CD collection?

Regardless of which type of music media you grew up with, you likely had thousands of dollars invested in collecting the music of your life.

Having been born in 1956, I lived through each of those eras (note that I did not mention the short-lived 8-track era) and had an extensive collection of each of those types of media storage.

By the end of my university days, I had amassed likely about 200 record albums, surely a small collection in comparison to that of many.

The beauty of purchasing a record was that I “owned” the music.

Unlike listening to a radio station that featured a specific music format, I could choose exactly what I wanted to listen to, listen to it when I wanted to, and did not have be subjected to commercial interruptions.

But doggone it, I couldn’t play a record in my car, on a beach, or as I walked down the street.

There was nothing portable about record........

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