Subj : Old Geek Thoughts...
To   : Jeff
From : TALIADON
Date : Thu Jan 06 2022 18:34:08

 Je> As for myself, I've pretty much abandoned having a video or music
 Je> library,in favor of streaming services.
 Je> 
 Je> Which is not to say that I was not extremely skeptical of music & video
 Je> streaming at first, as well as download-based video game ownership versus
 Je> more traditional cartridge- or media-based ownership.
 Je> 
 Je> However, I don't subscribe to anything just to subscribe; it has to have
 Je> value for me. I subscribed to Audible because I thought audiobooks might
 Je> be a thing for me, but upon realizing it's not I cancelled my
 Je> subscription. I do have a Spotify account that costs less than one new
 Je> album per month and I can listen to almost any album in existence at any
 Je> time (with a couple of exceptions I've found so far: Elektra's Rubaiyat
 Je> retrospective album and the Deadicated tribute album).

I got as far as ripping my CDs & DVDs in order to put them on a media server,
but subscription services don't really hold any intrinsic value for me per se:
I'm not really the eclectic type, and tend to watch the same Jimmy Stewart
film over and over again (much to my wife's chagrin).

That said however, we do subscribe to Sky and Netflix so the grandchildren
can watch "Teen Titans Go" or whatever happens to be flavour of the month. I
personally begrudge the Sky subscription, but as I said, my threshold of
compromise has been eroded over the years: I don't want my grandchildren to go
without. There's a certain feeling of inner defeat/shame attached to paying a
subscription for commercialised TV, but what can you do when love outweighs
principle?

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