#pretentious vinylhead way and not that i think that spotify is entirely bad but i just think there's something to the specificity of the act

[leonardcohenofficial]

that spotify article is why i will always advocate for physical media; i’m as big a spotify user as anybody but i think that the key to that essay is the idea of ontology of taste vs. emergent affect; when you’re listening to vinyl or making mixtapes or burning CDs it is a different relationship to the media itself (and thus the listening experience) than having music constantly bombarded at you, and is less about what “becomes available to you” and more about what one has deemed pleasurable to the point of wanting to own a physical copy of it and constructing a listening experience around the act of engaging with the media itself (if that makes sense)