Thoughts and suggestions please

Cool @cleeds

I take all the points that I said and you highlighted as incorrect back. Yes the gen z and millennials are the biggest buyers when it comes to CDs and vinyl. And yes the buy up all the new music on physical media. I was wrong. You can rest easy now. 

I have at least 3k vinyl, over 3.5K cd's, I'm completely overwhelmed with storing all these albums, cd's don't take up quite so much space. I have albums stored all over house, most will never get played again. Accessing and playing this much physical media is a complete hassle, and I'm pretty much forced to listen through an entire side with vinyl, not going to skip tracks or only play one track. And if I do play an entire side, I'm only listening  to very limited number of artists/albums over an entire listening session. All my cd's ripped so cd plays pretty much exactly like streams. Between vinyl, cd rips and streams I have a huge library of music to listen to, streaming absolutely necessary in order to hear a wide variety of the music i love. And streaming sound quality doesn't have to take a back seat to any physical media. In my present situation, I've determined physical media to be an obsolete means to hear vast majority of all the fine music in my streaming libraries. 

@audphile1 

Good God ya'all, I have paid musicians so many numerous times over my 50 some years that it has manifested into some "irksome" dislike for some of my music heroes. Some of it feels like a corporate scam okay'd by millionaire musicians who need a new beach home.

From the changing of mediums; late 70's 8-tracks; 80's cassettes and a few LP's if I had the money; to CD's and what amounted to about 8K in LP purchases in the last 10 years, I have paid over and over again to musicians - many for the same dang record. And don't get me started on remastering (and some that are so poorly remastered that I feel it was simply a con to use the marketing term in the sales pitch). That list is long and the term "remastered" has been used as a cudgel to illicit additional funds from the same fans. 

I am sure everyone has a particular musician (?) in mind when it comes to how much money you may have spent paying for his or her catalogs in numerous mediums and formats,  but Neil Young comes to mind for me. Why his offerings are that much more than other artists offerings has kind of rubbed me the wrong way.

When it comes to new music, everyone must pay. Recently purchased the new Doobie Brothers CD, and an LP from a great new indie group called, "Wet Leg". Nearly all my purchases of LP's nowadays are new. So while I build a digital collection of older music in various formats, analog purchasing will always be money in the pocket of those hard working folks bringing us new music. I am cognizant about my spending habits to ensure I support musicians. 

I simply asked AI on demographics of physical music purchasing and if it is trending up or down and even I was surprised at how growth in the industry is escalating despite most folks on this site suggesting that both CD & Vinyl being on their deathbeds. Been hearing that for years, only to be told that it is false. Maybe collecting music will never go the way of beanie babies or longaberger baskets.

Guess you are either bearish or bullish on keeping a hold of your physical mediums, but in the end, streaming is throwing money away while throwing pennies into the pockets of musicians. Those that choose streaming services are the ones who choose not to support musicians. 

@goodlistening64 that’s cool man. Enjoy the music!

I don't stream...and will never either.