For people born in 2000-2008.
I feel like there has really been a hidden apocalypse in the modern consumer era, exploitation era, the era that no longer cares about humanity or it’s mental health.
From food to entertainment to supposed freedom to so called advancement of the society, we’ve only seen a steady and constant decline in the psychological and mental state of the society as a whole.
I can’t help but notice how different were the things in 2007 or even 2015. The modernity and it’s bells and whistles has really been hazardous.
Have you thought about stopping? I don’t use spotify, and I buy almost everything I listen to on bandcamp.com (with a few amazon outliers not available there, and one outlier who does not like digital distribution and requires me to order the CD via mail :D). I only listen to full albums, repeated all the time for a while until I only return to it once in a while. That also has the effect of more money going towards the band.
Yeah, I have bought a few albums, maybe 10 off bandcamp. I think that’s really the way to go.
I should try again, I miss the feeling of having something special.
It’s not for me, but some people really enjoy holding something in their hands, so give a thought about buying vinyl or CDs as well, many on BC do offer that. Another idea would be to force yourself to only play albums on spotify ;)
I don’t even have a CD drive anymore! I got rid of my record player before I was even 20.
Maybe I’ll try to find something good on Bandcamp.
Hah, I didn’t have one either (for that one artist, I always ripped the CDs when I visited my parents :D), but actually had to buy one again recently, because I wanted to rewatch a TV show with my wife (ReGenesis, 2004, far ahead of its time biolab thriller/scifi, includes predicting things like Covid :D Gets a bit unhinged towards the end) that had no streaming (outside of free US ad supported potato quality), digital buying, lending or anything available, so I ended up ordering the DVD box from ebay and buying an external DVD drive to rip all the episodes. Then I also had to use OCR to extract the subtitles, and use Whisper AI to create new subtitles for the second season, which didn’t have any. That was a whole thing :D
I’m going to have to look into this. Canadia makes some great sci fi
It’s far more grounded than normal scifi, though. Or, said differently, very hard scifi with barely anything made up.
I too am transitioning. Have cancelled my membership to many platforms Netflix, Spotify etc. And now i want to just buy one thing and soak it in and remember each of that when I’m old.
Effortlessness doesn’t leave any print on your memory of whatever you achieve, nor does it give you that feeling of fulfillment when u get that thing yourself after doing much more effort than just tapping spotify.