I probably buy 10% of the music I once bought, but I'm hearing more new and different music now than I was listening to a decade ago. These days I only buy something - hardcopy or download - if there's something I really, really want to hear that isn't available on any streaming platform, or if it's a very small label or self-released item of low popularity music (which comprises a lot of the contemporary avant garde jazz I listen to), and I have a concern that some day it will be unavailable and hard to find. Now, with streaming, it's like I've been given back the world of music because I can hear most of what I'm curious about without having to pay for it piecemeal or hold a hardcopy of something I might listen to once, or for a couple of months, and then maybe not listen to again for a decade.

Buying and holding hard copy on every bit of new recorded music I'm curious to hear became so expensive and such a space burden that I found myself listening to less and less new and new to me music. I'm less interested in returning to old favorites.

Click to expand.For me, my primary interest is in hearing new and new to me music.

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