I almost didn’t post to this thread, but then I saw your message. "Univers Zero", you say?? An audiophile after my own heart!
UZ is just one of dozens of "Rock in Opposition" and USSR artists that I’ve loved for decades, and which are mostly ignored by both Tidal and Qobuz. If you didn’t, like me, buy the Cuneiform CDs and LPs when you had the chance, or trade American albums for locally produced discs/disks with Euro & Soviet-bloc penpals in the 80s, your only online source today for those progressive-rock, jazz, and RIO releases is YouTube.
But for me, the dealbreaker is that Tidal & Qobuz have a tendency to simply delete albums without warning. Admittedly, this is at least sometimes due to content-owner licensing issues, but regardless, I’ve been burnt too many times when I foolishly relied on a streaming service to make favorite albums available in perpetuity. And not just vintage Soviet-era European releases — Yoko Ono, Terry Riley, 1950s-60s academic electronic-music anthologies, and even Chick Corea, Sia (!), and Yes releases, have all vanished abruptly from my Tidal playlist during just the last few months.
So that’s the reason why, despite streaming most of the time, physical media remains my preferred delivery mechanism. And — I hope you’re listening, Netflix — all of this applies to movies as well as audio albums.
@simonmoon, if you’re a Univers Zero fan, you’ve got to also love Art Zoyd, right?