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    Off topic, but I love the Three Body Problem. Ok, bye

    This almost drove me crazy over the last few years. I would rant to people about the benefits, even for the artist, of buying and owning music in particular. Streaming should be an option, but there is a concerted effort to make it the sole way entertainment media is consumed.

    It may be different now, but the last time I bought music from Amazon, the download option wasn’t immediate, like I had to install an Itunes type of software, an “Amazon player” and then download it from that.

    Are we seriously gonna talk about this now? As easy and convenient as it might be, this issue of digital product and commerce is at the core of all the current crazy in the creative industries, Netflix to Spotify. A few years back I tried to talk about this all the time and people just stared like I was saying