Simply because online has proven to be unreliable. You "buy" something, spend money, and one day someone decides they don't want to uphold their part, and shuts down the servers, leaving the customers without the product they paid for.

Enshittification

• more ads
• more cost
• more buffering
• no ff/rwd without more ads
• discovery algorithms changed for profit instead of being useful
• I told you so - lost “purchases” when a service loses a license or goes bankrupt
• more buffer
• why the eff are they pushing Joe Rogan again?

Because owning music and paying once, is way better than paying every month and listening to the same popular tracks again and again.

Yes I know, Spotify has tons of tracks available, still, I like to go through my CDs and play it right away, no internet needed, no ads, no algorithms.

i get it, but it takes up so much room. I had thousands of CDs. Maybe over 9,000. But I live in a townhouse and there just isn't room to keep all that shit, especially if you want to do the same thing for other media like blu rays, games, vinyl or whatever else.

Personally, i find other ways to enjoy music and movies in a physical/visual form like prints, posters, and apparel.

Kinda rings true. I now have a CD player in my car and living room, but I'm not interested in carrying around a bulky discman again.

Listening to the albums of my youth has mostly lost its charm though. I think I'm mostly just nostalgic and missing my old friends.