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[Poll] Music: Rent or Buy? (2018)

As a basic approach - Rent or Buy your music?


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I hardly stream anything. There's a ridiculous amount of physical music available and I have no problem finding things I haven't heard before. I have a Squeezebox setup of ripped stuff which is good for background listening and random shuffled playlists, but otherwise it's physical media for me.
 
Tried the Spotify thing & got bored....

I find listening to some music that I have handled and own far more satisfying and pleasurable.
 
I am a newbie to this forum, but an old hi-fi buff. Like others I use Tidal to audition new music and buy if I like it a lot. I have to say, that I don’t find many new releases that I really like and there’s not a lot of new artists that take my fancy.

When I got my NAS about 8 years ago, I purchased a lot of second hand albums, ripped them to the NAS, then handed them back to the charity shop. I was recently considering an upgrade of my drives from 4gb to 6gb but decided to clear out a lot of albums that I don’t listen to and unlikely to do so in the future. I have put them on a couple of old drives and stored them away in case I changed my mind in the future.

Bill.
 
I doubt any of the cds I want to listen to are any where to be streamed as I am not a pop-head

You’d have to be very off-piste for one or more of Spotify, Tidal or Qobuz not to hold a large proportion of what you may want.

‘Pop’ is a fairly meaningless genre term, though chart toppers doubtless form the lion’s share of streaming traffic.
 
Qobuz has just about everything by Captain Beefheart. That will do . But I’d still rather listen to the vinyl, or at a pinch the CD
 
My position is still that I have no issue with streaming or "rent to play", but I'm still buying CDs and increasingly, more LPs (that "vinyls" for the yoof!)
 
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