You should own music that you like

[Lookologist003]

I make morphs. I like listening to music while I do it. I had my playlists all neatly organized into tempo and genre and the running order was just fantastic. But on Friday last week I learnt that I vill own nothing and I vill be happy.


What goes on with artists and YouTube music, I don't know, but because I didn't own the files of the music that I like in that they're not on my PC's file system for reasons, on Friday my favourite album vanished from YouTube music, and my playlists were corrupted. I couldn't play the music that I wanted to. Effectively I had my ears revoked. I was miffed and started thinking that it doesn't have to be this way.

If you own your own private property, or rent, and in that private property you have a computer desktop or laptop or whatever, then why would you stream music for it to vanish, because somebody got pissy about copyright or some bollocks. Some petty feud between artists who can't cope that they too one day will be irrelevant as is in the nature of time and all humans that lived.

I would pay just to have the files, but I couldn't, because I didn't know where else on the web I could find the album I had come to love. I found it on Spotify, and there was this web site that let me download the album, with all the metadata of the album cover, lyrics, artists names, track number. The web site didn't even charge me a cent, so those dudes who jerry rig those nasty Web APIs and allow me to download and own what I like, I want to kiss their shoes to show my gratitude. And the thing is I wanted to pay the artist, but after this experience, I'm wondering if I do.

Companies like Spotify are music parasites. They should just let me pay artists for music like I pay for games on Steam. Spotify can even take a extortionate cut like Steam do for the infrastructure or repositories of the files. On Steam you can just buy the files for music if the developer of the video game offers for sale an enhanced version of the sound track, (although that does mean you have to put up with the shitty steam package management software).

You should own the files for the music that you like. All recordings just exist as a file on a filesystem somewhere. And all you do by depending on Spotify or YouTube music is just allow them and the copyright holders to enforce DRM on your computer, and smirk when they revoke your access to music. I think somebody at Spotify takes as much pleasure in enforcing their will onto you and your PC as beckies do when rejecting a 4 or a 5.

How the price-per-byte continues to plummet, you ought to try own your own files. A tenet of male nature is that men love control. Men are megalomaniacal, and if they can do DRM on your PC that you paid for, they will try. This tenet of control is why men find it really hard to accept that their looks matter in their dating life, because you can't change your looks (at least when you bluepilled and know nothing of plastic surgery you can't change your looks).

I want companies like Spotify to go bankrupt so we can return to the 1990s and actually own music, like physically own the information, not fucking stream it in Ethernet packet from bumfuck.fuckyou.com whereupon their whim or wish or the copyright holder's they can fucking erase good recordings and piss you off when you next open that playlist. I could keep ranting about ads or subscriptions and how long it sometimes takes for the server retrieve the playlist I have played for the last 16 weeks. I have to wait ten seconds for the next song to start cuz of buffering. With files on my PC's music player, it takes milliseconds to load the next track.

One more thing that humans take for granted is the availability of resources on the Web. The Web is just as cucked as humans are, because it's like a portal into human society. Just assume that your review of Pagnoni will still be on Looksmax. Oops! They took it down. Don't remember what you typed? Too bad!

This future just keeps getting more and more shitty.