Streaming killed the sense of wonder and magic. I remember walking through the video store, looking at the painted VHS or DVD copies. The majority of them I never heard off. You saw a cool cover, read the synopsis on the back, rented the movie and it turned out crap or amazing. Sometimes you really wanted a specific movie but it wouldn't be available for the longest time. I remember when SE7EN came on VHS, we struggled for almost 3 months to get it. When we finally got it and watched it, it was spectacular. The wait was so worth it. Now , everyone can see movies and shows immediately. No wonder they come out, and then is quickly forgotten. Bring back DVD and Blu-ray shops. They are magical places. Streaming is turning everyone into the fat useless slobs from Wall-E
They are dumb to get rid of DVD and Blu Ray. The people who really want to support it will do both, buy the disc and stream it so that the art can be rewarded and monetized both ways. There's no reason why they can't make at least 1 million DVDs for a hit show or movie and let it sell slowly.
Yes I want to see so many DVD and VHS stores come back please if there is a time to bring back the wonder and all the whimsical and colorful nature of Physical Media and the 2000s decade (Expect for 9/11) and Early 10s as a whole *THE TIME IS NOW!!!*
not really. searching every corner of the internet for music has done nothing but good for me. internet outages and low quality apply but nonetheless, without the internet, i could never find entire genres that only exist of the internet. my favorite composer makes music for fun without any official release, so there is no way i could ever find his stuff even if i had every officially released song in my possession. i might dare say the wide selection is the best feature of streaming. not even convenience.
I kid you not, last night we were watching a movie, paused it around halfway for bathroom break and when we came back, it gave an error, turns out the movie we were watching had been removed while we were away, absolute insanity
The censorship is also completely hidden. I used to watch a sitcom from the seventies. I recorded almost every episode onto VHS back in the early 2000's. I noticed it's now streaming on Netflix or Amazon or whatever. There was a scene that was burned into my brain in one episode so I watched it one night. The scene wasn't there. I thought maybe I just had the wrong episode. After some digging I found out I did have the correct episode. Turns out they just deleted entire chunks of the episode. With no disclaimer anywhere to be found that what they were showing was edited. This is so freaking wrong on so many levels. As far as I'm concerned this is rewriting history. Points of view and values were different in the past. Erasing these things eliminates learning what was right and wrong from the past. At the very least, the bare minimum, make it clear something has been modified, even though it shouldn't be done in the first place.
This happened with an episode of the office where an entire joke was cut out which made another scene make no sense at all, its the episode “Dwight Christmas”, this is why im going back to DVDs
I have tried very hard to explain this is going to happen to so many people but especially my kids. The thing I always tell them as well is who gets to be the one to decide what is appropriate and what is not.
"You will own nothing, and you will be happy." I hate how most people don't seem to understand the importance of physical media these days. It's just not the same anymore.
I have an iPod loaded with a bunch of songs. There’s a comfort in knowing that I’ll always have access to the songs on the iPod, as long as the iPod itself survives
nice and i got my andriod filled with songs and movies from a sd card and hated that the newer andriod phone got rid of the sd card slot turn damn apple.
You’re absolutely right, but sad truth is, everyones too lazy and just don’t care. It really baffled me when Sony pulled hundreds of digital shows from your account. Just goes to show that what when you purchase something digital, it actually isn’t yours when at any time, all of your content can just go fuck itself.
In an ideal world it'd go: - Media releases for open-ended rental download (or "buy" as they currently call it). - Media goes onto subscription services in 3 months. - Physical media release 6 months to a year later (caveat: medium used must not require an internet connection to use). - Accept that pirates are gonna pirate and really don't account for a large potential audience anyway. Not gonna lie, I kinda envy the old guys who are happy with a hobby like fishing or bowling that are never gonna have to stress over stuff like this.
As convenient as streaming services like Spotify and such are, they will never compare to actually owning a CD, VHS tape, DVD, game or even a book. Physical media will always be better than digital.
I’m an 80s baby and because I favor physical over digital, I NEVER owned an iPod! Also, being a Windows person, I never owned a single Apple product period until I got my first iPhone in late 2008!
I recently built a home theatre and am now collecting 4K Blu-rays for the first time. It feels great knowing you own what you’re watching and experiencing it in the best format possible. Also, those movie menus took me wayy back. I am now collecting vinyl and playing them on the same home theatre I watch movies on. It’s amazing.
This video has inspired me to start buying CDs and a CD player for once in my life. Spotify has showed me what music I like to listen to and now I can stop using it to just buy the albums outright. Thank you so much for your take on this Brendan, it has helped me greatly.
I still buy cd’s and physical copies of dvds/video games. It’s says a lot about a person when you see the kinda movies someone has in their home. Besides, what if we lose the internet sometime in our lifetime..
The frequency depends on where you are. In the middle of the city internet connection outages are less frequent than in the sticks, generally speaking.
Exactly...no ads. And it just feels different owning a physical copy. Plus u get all the extras and bonus scenes. And once u pay for it no monthly fees. Its just yours. Streaming only works if its a movie or show u only watch every blue moon or dont want
I just screen cap what I stream (and if I like it, keep that shit forever on a giant HDD)....and before someone screams piracy, it's no different than using a vcr to record shows like we all did back in the day.
I had an uncle who died before I ever even met him but he left behind a couple mixtapes of music he enjoyed and I love listening to those. It makes me feel connected to him, and he had a banger taste in music. You're so right that's not something a Spotify playlist can really replicate unless there's a lot of intentionality put into it
I recently got a record player and some classic vinyls. It feels awesome to let the whole album playthrough without the urge to skip a song. Play it the way the artist intended. I used to love buying a CD and opening up the insert to read the lyrics & the artwork. Having these at your disposel is better than relying on your phone to connect to the web. Sometimes with options, less is more
I agree 👍 💯 percent 🎉❤. The people deserve to own what they like 👍 not just have access to it by controlling media streaming services! Long live physical media. POWER TO THE PEOPLE!🎉
You mean the past. Once corporations can figure out how to digitize a cheese burger and fries then sell a monthly subscription for it they will. The sad part is, the masses will immediately start renting their food. Once you open Pandora’s box, it can’t be closed again. The battle for the future is being fought in the youth, who have never know what it is to spend money on owning a CD or DVD, and as long as parents purchase family plans to all these streaming services, they never will.
I think you missed the point of the video. It doesnt talk about mainstream music. It is about the streaming era. Two very different topics. Also you dont have to like mainstream music. But keep in mind that mainstream music isnt automatically bad, boring or hollow. Its just a different kind of art. Apart from that art also doesnt have to have a big meaning. Art can also just be fun. No shame in that.
My wife discovered my old collection of sitcom and comedy dvds from high school. She expressed surprise as she didn’t know I was into that sort of media. It’s strange what you can learn about a person about their possessions. In a way, its also sad that there’s so much of our inner lives and our past that are not communicated by the ‘privacy’ of digital media.
I cancel all of my subscriptions. The golden era of streaming is over. The studios slowly but surely make their apps to be the new cable channels now. It is so fragmented, full of shits, and full of ads. I'm back to own my own contents.
Streaming is just cable TV with extra steps. I'm 40 now and I called the digital age out at the beginning. I'm not angry at where this has all gone but I recognise it. My physical collection of music, films and games are still with me even though I will stream stuff too. It will never fully return to where it was. Things will move on and become even more fast paced. You just have to know where you want to stop or slow down when it comes to consumption.
Another thing is if you pay for a movie on youtube and later it becomes available on youtube momentarily for free then when it goes back to not being free you no longer own it. This happened to me.
The fact that this video gets nostalgic for the early 2010s makes me feel incredibly, INCREDIBLY old! Nonetheless, excellent analysis. I grew up in the 90s where there was absolutely a lot of garbage, but there was also a lot of awesome stuff to be discovered. There were record / vhs / dvd stores that were great places to talk to people, browse the selection and learn about new albums, films etc. In an age where everything is curated to keep giving us comfort food, there’s a real loss of that sense of discovery and the wonder that comes with it.
talking about music now: the point of not really owning the music we listen to, is one of the main reasons why i don’t use Spotify and why i choose to download the songs i like instead.
Even if physical media made a comeback, I wouldn’t trust the record companies and studios to not do something shady like require all new CD and blue ray players to have a Wi-Fi connection so they could block the playing of used discs or to block or edit content on physical media as well. They would absolutely try to pull something like that.
Exactly, and I'll be damned if I'm going to pay for led zeppelin's physical graffiti for the 12th time in some new format. I've paid for it, i own the things i've paid for several times over in several formats and I'm done doing that. I can play it on my walkman, or my record player, or my dvd player or my cassette tape etc
absolutely on point! Physical media gets more important by the day as people aren't realizing the consequences with streaming & preferring convenience, no matter the price increases, over ownership & art. Love the point about the sentimentality of a physical product as an extension of someone & bringing you closer to that person.
This dropping right as I've been splurging on my movie and music collection again. Couldn't agree more. What's really crazy is stuff that is only 10 or 20 years old can be so difficult to find on physical media, to say nothing of the classics. They just stopped making discs once streaming got too big. Great art just disappears, and no one notices.
I've started to go back and buy physical media, I have quite the collection now. The reason I've started collecting is for a few things. 1. You actually own the thing you purchase 2. The physical release is typically free from censorship, and has tons of bonus features 3. Physical media looks and sounds better than Streaming. Seriously, it does. CDs are a lossless audio format. DVDs and Blurays have much better compression than a streaming service. One thing I miss though in this modern day... Is going to a video store. That was so fun. You could go and pick out the thing you wanted cheaper than at other places, or find hidden gems you wouldn't have found otherwise. Not to mention, you own the thing as soon as you buy it. No need to wait for it to ship out. I miss going in these places and finding something to check out, just because it looked interesting. Well... Thats all I got. Peace. Don't let physical media die. That's what they want. Don't let them. They want us to own nothing and be happy about it. I say No.
I'm not a fan of subscriptions/renting no matter whether its music, games or movies. They edit the content or take it out altogether as it might cause offence or due to expired licenses etc etc. I've never understood why people would opt to buy(or should i say rent) movies from their tv box provider. As if you want to change your provider you've then lost all that content, this is how they tie you down. I buy physical, that way i'm in control of it. If i don't own it, i don't care to. I've lost nothing should i wish to move or cancel a service. All these companies just want a regular income from you, they try every trick/scam to get it and to keep a hold on you.
You are exactly right - it’s *not* just about the song or the story. It’s about the memories and experience. Physical media gives you that. Streaming does not. Streamed content has no context. It never really becomes part of your life. Not in the same way, anyway. People click off things if they aren’t grabbed within 30 seconds. When choice was more limited, people made an effort to like the films or music or books they had access too, and sometimes fell in love with them, but after a while, not right away. Some things need space to grow on you, time to breathe. This is usually true for anything that takes any risk. And yeah, how many of those millions of shows or movies, or albums, or playlists, or books, does anyone ever *actually* consume? Not many I’m cancelling all my streaming services, all of them, and going back to physical That’s me, but nice to know I’m not alone
streaming feeds into the loss of attention and lack of memory building. If you grew up in the 80's and 90's you likely know every single word, beat ,guitar solo, click,pop,drop out of your physically owned media....with streaming those memory building activates are lost. you simply get lost in a world of endless background music.,,but I think its damaging to development and character .
The great irony of this so-called progress is that I am once again running into a familiar problem: hundreds of options and nothing to watch. I gave up looking for anything specific on streaming platforms long ago. At least nine times out of ten, they won't have what I'm looking for, so I just scroll through whatever the algorithm presents me with. And I scroll, and I scroll, and I scroll... It seems like everything I get access to either doesn't interest me, or I've already seen. It's just like channel surfing in days of yore, but at least we had video stores as an alternative. Honestly, if you're ever in the mood for something specific, you're better off consulting your collection of physical media. At least there you know that it contains stuff you like, and it will be there when you go looking for it.
I would not say phisical is necessariely better, but rather that owning is better than streaming. And I mean true owning, like having the actual file on your Device
and when buying something physical, you either have to finish it or return/sell it, where as streaming gives a wide variety of choice yet lacks quality in the shows they produce
This is really good. And it's also why I have started ripping my DVDs and Bluerays to a media server and canceled most streaming services. I own it, it won't change and when I flip through the library I will have a memory attached to all the content and build more as I purchase.
As long you have your music and videos on discs or hard drives that you can access without the internet, you’re safe. The streamer can pull the content anytime.
I also rip my DVD's to my NAS and use Infuse in my AppleTV to stream from my local NAS. Already there is 303 DVD's but that is only a small amount of my DVDs. Blurays and UHD BluRays I leave on the disc only, those files are too huge to store since I have around 200 UHD movies and lots of BluRays as well, but DVDs are so small that it is easy to store to NAS.
You touched on a huge part of this. The biggest issue in my opinion in the age of streaming is that you don't really own the media anymore. Since its not a physical copy, you are perpetually dependent on, say, Amazon being up and running to access and consume the media you bought on those platforms. Sometime in the future when say Amazon has gone defunct, or the Xbox live servers go down, you won't be able to access the movies, games, music, etc that you bought. With physical media, it could be 70 years from now, I'm in my 90s, and still be able to pop in that record, or DVD, or Halo 3 for the 360 and still use it, assuming I keep the hardware in working order. A nuclear war could end modern civilization, but with physical media you can preserve the art and access it with nothing more than a generator and outlet. Right now I'm gonna go and play one of my grandpas old records I just discovered today
I was in the middle of Mad Men and Ray Donovan on Prime both disappeared from their service before i could finish them. And they only ever had the first 3 seasons of Animals. So i resorted to a mixture of buying physical media and other sources for my content
I also miss the fact that my friends and I used to exchange games to try out or play before getting a copy ourselves. Now that half of them are on steam, but we still be collecting physical cartridges when we buy something for the switch. As for movies, we used to rent them from our local libraries, but due to streaming services they do not renew or expand their collections anymore
I couldn't agree more. I was born in 84 and still buy all my cds and movies for all the reasons you described. I remember when album releases were a huge anticipation, same with movies. Now that thrill is gone. I love when people complain that what they want to watch isn't streaming, I just laugh and say, "I don't have that problem." Great video! 👍🏻
Alot of people seem to want a return to good stuff like physical media being more prominent again but they also immediately throw in the towel saying whats gonna happen is gonna happen with everything going digital and degrading in value. If its something you care about then fight for it and do what you can to keep it some things are timeless and worth holding on to. If you don't like the way things are change them yeah one person can't do it alone but one person can inspire another then that person inspires another and before you know it your side outnumbers the other. Even if it is hopeless fight anyways better to try and fail then to never try at all there no shame in failure only in giving up. This can apply to literally anything you love and care about in life the power is in your hands never give up.
The streaming era also destroyed the art of backstage commentary, back then DVD's were incredible pieces of art because most of them were not only the "product" movie or series, but also the making off, extras, audio commentary, deleted scenes and special menus. Back then people collected DVD's and even rated them (a Simpsons DVD was excellent for the extra content). None of that exists now and we don't know or even have access to the making of media now.
i love this video! i’m guilty of not appreciating physical media enough but have pledged to start and am even trying to get those around me interested and excited about it
Netflix has begun with highering the prices for their bad streaming offers. Then going one step forward and disallowed sharing your account outside of your home. Now Disney followed and next is prime video Spotify will also be more expensive. How I knew it already 10 years ago? It's my secret
Renting music forever and paying for the music you don't listen to or even like isn't something I'm interested in doing. In the end you'll own nothing and would have spent more time scrolling through millions of albums rather than actually listening
I'd like to own a lot of my media, but one practical reason for why I choose not to anymore is that I don't want to have a bunch of stuff to schlepp and I think a lot of people tacitly have this problem. Given that being able to afford rent is really difficult day, the last thing you want is to own a lot of things that are not essential and then being forced to move out of your apartment, or basement or dwelling cause you can't afford it anymore and having to carry boxes of CDs and DVDs and things that are not as essential to your survival and, for which, if you have to pay for storage they only add to the cost. Essentially, I want to be as light as possible not owning a ton of unnecessary things in case I have to move in an emergency situation.
You mean embracing the concept/lifestyle of being minimalists right? Because that exactly what I did. SMALL library of timeless relevant physcial media to have while accepting digital media being useful when needed. It actually frugal and efficient this way.
I've been leaning into the idea of being more conscience of what I buy, but CDs and content are an exception in my opinion. I like buying CDs because that means no company can take my music or movies away. Outside of those I am trying to be more conscience of what I buy. Recently a family member showed me a picture of something they found in a store that I might like, and I did like it but didn't buy it as it would just clutter my space.
I agree, everything fades out so much quicker and especially with albums people always move on from them after a week or two, and it doesnt have as much meaning as it used to for people no matter how good the album may be, which is just really sad especially
That is one of the reasons I'm set up to play records. You go out of our way to do it. It takes a certain amount of time and effort. And since you're nurturing a finite collection, you return to those titles over time, get to know them, develop associations with when you listened and with whom. All that is still possible today.
it is so true what you said about the memories & how they are associated w/ physical media. i was just thinking the other day about how my family used to own just 1 stereo that us kids would have to share. my brother & i used to fight over which song we'd get to play, his favorite or my favorite. back then i wished for a music player of my own so i wouldn't have to share. nowadays we ALL have our own devices which we stream spotify playlists on, no CDs, no stereos, no boomboxes or any of the physical stuff we used to have. & it's so dull b/c nobody interacts anymore, we are all in our own little digital world where we don't even own a copy of the record we're listening to!
Trends used to last for 1 to 2 and a half years almost 3 years. Gen Z trends lasts for 2-6 months and zoomers already kill it off and consider it dated by the later half of the year. To me that's a problem.
Just this year I purchased a used Sony Walkman. In both cassette and cds. And just started collecting cassettes. I’m done with streaming music. I rather have something to show for my money
To me, buying Albums and having a CD collection were a big part of why I enjoyed music in the first place. I remember as a kid I would spend the ride home from the electronics store in the backseat of my mom's car going through the booklet of a CD I just bought, appreciating the artist's and designer's collaborative effort to make the music "touchable". In 2024 all of that is gone. My music is nieche and therefore doesn't even see physical releases most of the time. Meanwhile whatever CDs I had are crumbling away due to their age, some of them being barely playable anymore because as it turns out the "CD" isn't exactly a durable medium. Now does this mean streaming at least prevents me from losing my favorite music due to it's age? No. When I go through my barely 6 years old Spotify Playlists a good chunk of music I collected is already missing due to artists removing their work, licenses expiring and well... Whatever else reason this might have(?). It's not happening often enough to be a complete dealbreaker (yet) but it is defenitely often enough to be a huge inconvenience since there is almost no way to recover it, leaving me with tracks and songs I've built emotional connections to being inaccessable. That's why last year I started downloading music again and I'm currently trying to collect the best music out of 6 years of streaming, to be independent from whatever tricks spotify and co. will pull on us in the near future. Think of it this way: The longer you wait to own your music, the more of a pain in the ass it will be to do it when spotify's disadvantages will outweigh the advantages. (Which will happen at one point, their business model is unsustainable in it's current form) ...and I haven't even touched on any of the other problems spotify is causing like artists changing their production style in an attempt to "hack the algorithm", making the first 30 secs of a song the most exciting ones so they can earn money when you don't skip away/ mass producing slop to shit something out every other month in order to stay "relevant", instead of taking their time and making music from the heart.
I grew up in the 80s and we all had like 2 channels. As a result, all of the kids watched the same handful of ultra popular cartoons. It was a way to relate to one another. I don’t see that anymore and when my kids grew up, I don’t think my kids will look back at their weekend tv viewing as fondly as I do mine.
@@watchforever1724 My children still watch tv for downtime (they're elementary school aged). So do most of their peers that they're friends with. From what I've seen, slightly older children had a lot of hands-on tablet and phone exposure at a really young age, but children still in grade school now seem to have slightly less access to portable devices (maybe parents feel more comfortable with televisions). This is just my personal experience - maybe its not common in this day and age?
I ditched streaming services and created my own home media server. It has shows I like and I have control over, and best of all I still have the physical disc copy so say if the media server craps out I can still use my ps5 as a movie player.
That point about there not being music "everyone" knows is pretty solid and a point I didn't think before. I remember when I was a kid, because the only way to consume music without spending money was to either listen to the radio, or watch MtV or VH1, there was a selection of Top 100 songs that everyone knew regardless of what kind of music fan you were. I think there are benefits to streaming, namely that I don't think it's a bad thing that people can end up finding niche genre's and artist due to how accessible music is nowadays. But, I think you're right that we no longer have this connection with each other because nowadays because can just stick to their playlists. I don't know if the answer is to entirely revert back to physical media, but I can agree that we should try and strike some type of balance.
There was the same sense of "community" in terms of TV shows, once upon a time. Look up the Nielsen rating numbers for things like the "Who Shot J.R.?” episode of _Dallas_ or the final episodes of _Cheers, Newhart_ or _MASH;_ those audience share numbers from back in the days before there were 700 cable channels are a thing of the past, simply because there is such a flood of content. As Bruce Springsteen observed in the early 90s: _”. . .there's 57 channels and nothing on."_
That "community" was mostly delegated to breakroom and idle bullshit let's be real, how many deep discussions have been had about Britney Spears Toxic, I love not having to go to a music or media store or the rare time I go to town a scene place or music themed café and either ask around or sift through hundreds of albums just to find a compromise, this is only a real loss to the record labels and artists.
We can't take the music industry back to where radio, MTV, VH1, stores, and the big three have all the power. That will limit the music you can listen to.
Man at times I sit and wonder and listen to how you construct things and how they play a part in our day to day lives, you made another step in your platform, well done.
Mannnnnnn this video just hit me bro!!!! I am 34 (born in 89, grew up in the 90s) and I remember buying an album or watching a tv show were moments. Now there is so much media and music constantly at our finger tips that albums are out of rotation in 2-3 weeks MAX. And the sad part is I don’t even know how to revert to make myself wanna focus on 1 album longer than a month. I KNEW I would hate where music was going when my homie purchased B.o.Bs first album “the adventures of Bobby Ray” in 2010 of iTunes…..they gave my boy a pdf file with the album artwork, like someone literally unfolded and xeroxed the front and back side in and put the 2 parts onto a sheet in the pdf……. I knew I hated where digital music was going at that very moment….
I always want to have options to choose either physical or digital. Sometimes you want to have something physical in your hands to own. Sometimes the physical copy is so rare you will have to know where to find it, thus is why Digital does have positives. But to throw out the baby with the bath water just for this all digital future, this is going to end badly for everyone.
It took me years to stream music because I said streaming was paying to borrow. I do stream now sometimes but I still buy the music I love in physical form because I want to own it. When streaming first came about my brother gave all his music away saying he didn’t need them anymore and they were just taking up space, I never understood it. Fast forward a decade and now he’s trying to get his music back, realising that ownership is the only direction we should be going in because big media can’t be trusted.
@fivehundrediq5212 the reason I stream music is A) radio does not play the music I like. B) I would never be able to listen to the music I like based on what Sony, Universal, and Warner music sell.
I personally cut out streaming music and reverted back to only listening to music I have a physical copy of and it did help me appreciate the stuff I liked alot better.
I will always continue to reject this crap of digital streaming services and digital media, I abhor this garbage that is so boring, I have always embraced my great passion for collecting comics in physical format, of course physical media (DVDs, Blu-rays and CDs), my parents, my younger sister, and of course my family, even my school friends, gave me a better condition to hate and see how digital streamings are pure crap, physical media discs will always be better solutions to be happy in a healthy lifestyle, I say no to Netflix, Amazon Prime and other streaming services, long live DVDs, CDs and Blu-rays.
Yes, I still have my gamecube, and ps2 and sony walkman and record player and dvd player and vhs player and all of my favorite cd's, tapes, games, records etc. If they ever decide to just shut off access to streaming content, or the grid goes down, I will be able to read my books and play my cd's so long that I can find a battery and candlelight.
I’m so glad this topic of conversation is being discussed !!! Everything being digitalised takes away from the natural excitement and anticipation when something gets newly released or discovered. When digital products overpower the physical product in the market, it leaves less room for physical media to still prolong its existence and be a consumer purchase.
Wow, you really got to the heart of the matter there. What sucks in my life is not having the space I once had for storage. I think many people find themselves having to go digital out of necessity.
Hell yeah man. I’ve been buying a lot of Blue-Rays lately. Especially Disney movies because one day Disney will make animated replacements for older movies and they will remove the “original” versions from Disney+ and they will make it illegal to resell or to buy their Blue-Rays from other people.
The primary reason why songs don't last these days isn't because of how people listen; it's because the songs themselves are crap. Same for movies and TV shows.
I miss the era of album releases being big events so much. No one is connected to artists anymore and they don't see value in music as an art form. I also couldn't agree more with what you said about how it's all too targeted now too. The whole current system is just plain broken.
As Gen Z, I prefer music from the 80s , 90s and early 2000s. I feel jealous of the ppl born before my generation who were fortunate enough to experience an era where media and art was genuine and creative.
Good video! I'm still buying cd's like it's 1993, and I only watch movies on physical media. About once a year I might briefly listen to something on Spotify - usually because someone sent me a link - but otherwise I don't go there, and I have NEVER streamed a movie or tv show. It may sound pretentious af, but choosing to buy physical media instead of having limitless access to everything through streaming helps me remember the value of music and movies. It may not help the creators in any meaningful way, since the old consumer/creator relationship is practically dead, but it helps me to appreciate these things more instead of taking them for granted and demand that I have immediate access to them on my phone/tablet/laptop every second of every day. I'm just not in any way interested in that.
I own my own house, I don't rent it. I own my own physical media, I don't rent it. Owning something you are passionate and excited about is a much more fulfilling experience than renting or borrowing it.
And streaming music means you'll be renting it forever, some company will be sucking $ out of your account periodically until you die. You'll also be paying for the stuff that you don't listen to or even like. You'll own nothing in the end. At least with physical media it's somewhat of an investment that appreciates in value that you can pass on to your kids and grandkids. I have my grandparents records and the connection I maintain with them can't be had by streaming or a usb stick.
So you bought your house and everything you own without using any form of credit? (mortgage, car payment, credit cards, etc). You’re missing out on some sweet cash-back $$ yo! 😂
Evwryone pays taxes, its a fact of life you have to deal with. And its still cheaper and superior to renting where you cant even do anything with the house.@@Vibrantly_Monochromatic
Yeah. Good art no longer has any space around to use for thinking. All space is occupied. Watching a good movie on Netflix is like trying to look at a painting surrounded by loud gambling machines.
This video is legit. As a musician I can say that streaming ruined things. When people were willing to buy CDs I had a bigger audience. I actually made a little bit of money. Then things went to people buying MP3s instead. And that was still basically OK even though I personally prefer a CD. But then Spotify happened and the bottom fell out. It's near impossible to get an audience now and even when you do Spotify only pays like a thousandth of a penny for a stream, so those CDs sales are definitely gone. People are willing to buy a record now so that's nice and I love records myself but producing records is a very large upfront cost to do it correctly and you'll never sell them all unless you're already very well known. CDs on the other hand are reasonably cost effective to make professionally but no one wants them now. Streaming has taken over. There really is something to be said though about buying a CD or a record and holding it, looking at it, reading it, listening to it and enjoying it that streaming will neve replicate. I think we lost something here. Both as listeners and as musicians.
Streaming is destroying our modern entertainment there are too many of them now it's getting beyond ridiculous get physical Media you get artwork keep it forever in it's purest form
Definitely agree that TV was more than just consuming media. Adult Swim was a good example. I also remember as a child looking forward to ABC Family’s Countdown to Christmas movie lineup and making sure to tune in when my favorite movie was on. Things like that don’t happen anymore.
I do disagree with your music opinion. I do think physical options need to always be available for everything. It really sucks to see stores like Best Buy phasing this stuff out
It’s strange how I’ve been seeing this coming for so long and the younger generation always defends digital content. It’s as if people are just now starting to see it… now that it’s too late.
recently Jet Set Radio Soundtrack was removed from streaming services and people complained about it on twitter. I mean this is one of the reason why I don't rely on streaming services. I use it but it's like a Internet radio station. to me, Music is not one time thing. I always come back to music I loved. also there were music what didn't impress me at first time, but impressed me at 2nd or 3rd times.
While I'm glad physical media is still an option, there's no way to put this genie back into it's bottle. The complete democratization of popular music, I think, is a benefit, not a drawback. Not only does it allow more opportunities for artists who'd continue to be victims of systemic marginalization not even ten years ago, it also deemphasizes the need for consumers to keep up with trends to enjoy what they want. I feel like the longer we have streaming, the better artists will understand how to use it, the same way they did with movies, records, television and RUclips. More importantly, artists who gain a better understanding of it will figure out how to negotiate deals better than "a fraction of a cent for every thousand plays."
@@robbyrdog I had to read your comment twice to figure out what you meant. No shame in making mistakes, just letting you know since in this case the mistake literally flips the thing you're trying to communicate.
In german we say "Die Qual der Wahl" which means "The Torment of choice". That sentence describes the whole on demand thing quite well for me. It's true for video games as well. There are too many great games to choose from, I can't even get in to one and end up playing something I already know and have nostalgia for.
Might seem weird but I physically enjoyed music more when all I had was one cd in my car. I don’t know, it’s like your brain can’t handle having every song at the fingertips.
I just found this video today but WHOA WHOA WHOA WHOA!! I have been saying "Reject Modernity" since 2019 and even made a shirt that with the phrase on it. You stole my catch phrase 😂
Streaming killed the sense of wonder and magic. I remember walking through the video store, looking at the painted VHS or DVD copies. The majority of them I never heard off. You saw a cool cover, read the synopsis on the back, rented the movie and it turned out crap or amazing. Sometimes you really wanted a specific movie but it wouldn't be available for the longest time. I remember when SE7EN came on VHS, we struggled for almost 3 months to get it. When we finally got it and watched it, it was spectacular. The wait was so worth it. Now , everyone can see movies and shows immediately. No wonder they come out, and then is quickly forgotten. Bring back DVD and Blu-ray shops. They are magical places. Streaming is turning everyone into the fat useless slobs from Wall-E
They are dumb to get rid of DVD and Blu Ray. The people who really want to support it will do both, buy the disc and stream it so that the art can be rewarded and monetized both ways. There's no reason why they can't make at least 1 million DVDs for a hit show or movie and let it sell slowly.
Yes I want to see so many DVD and VHS stores come back please if there is a time to bring back the wonder and all the whimsical and colorful nature of Physical Media and the 2000s decade (Expect for 9/11) and Early 10s as a whole *THE TIME IS NOW!!!*
Cars killed the wonder & magic of the horse carriage but I don’t see you complaining about that😊
@@fivehundrediq5212 ooooh, look at the big brain on you.
it's more efficient to be a mindless consumer this way so they will never go back
It's so strange that as time and technology progressed, having TOO many options seems to be one of the bigger pitfalls
Yes, it's the illusion of choice.
Illusion of choice?
Google it.@@daviddedios8273
not really. searching every corner of the internet for music has done nothing but good for me. internet outages and low quality apply but nonetheless, without the internet, i could never find entire genres that only exist of the internet. my favorite composer makes music for fun without any official release, so there is no way i could ever find his stuff even if i had every officially released song in my possession. i might dare say the wide selection is the best feature of streaming. not even convenience.
The “Paradox of choice” theory has been around long before the internet (choice overload).
I kid you not, last night we were watching a movie, paused it around halfway for bathroom break and when we came back, it gave an error, turns out the movie we were watching had been removed while we were away, absolute insanity
if you dont mind me asking , which movie or platform was that on ?
@@GeneralDante108 it was star plus😅
That is wild.
That happened to me also!!!!!
@@GeneralDante108 omg I thought I had answered this?? It was Star Plus😭
The censorship is also completely hidden. I used to watch a sitcom from the seventies. I recorded almost every episode onto VHS back in the early 2000's. I noticed it's now streaming on Netflix or Amazon or whatever. There was a scene that was burned into my brain in one episode so I watched it one night. The scene wasn't there. I thought maybe I just had the wrong episode. After some digging I found out I did have the correct episode. Turns out they just deleted entire chunks of the episode. With no disclaimer anywhere to be found that what they were showing was edited. This is so freaking wrong on so many levels. As far as I'm concerned this is rewriting history. Points of view and values were different in the past. Erasing these things eliminates learning what was right and wrong from the past. At the very least, the bare minimum, make it clear something has been modified, even though it shouldn't be done in the first place.
The Prime version of Betty Blue has nearly an hour of the film cut out, if you want the uncensored version you have to pay up it's ridiculous.
@@balthus9105yeah I know
This happened with an episode of the office where an entire joke was cut out which made another scene make no sense at all, its the episode “Dwight Christmas”, this is why im going back to DVDs
I have tried very hard to explain this is going to happen to so many people but especially my kids. The thing I always tell them as well is who gets to be the one to decide what is appropriate and what is not.
@@mattmartin6493yeah agreed
"You will own nothing, and you will be happy." I hate how most people don't seem to understand the importance of physical media these days. It's just not the same anymore.
Same here
Yeah I know
"I will OWN Something and be Happy" If you don't make a game or movie into physical media; IT does not exist I say.
@ yeah I know
I have an iPod loaded with a bunch of songs. There’s a comfort in knowing that I’ll always have access to the songs on the iPod, as long as the iPod itself survives
nice and i got my andriod filled with songs and movies from a sd card and hated that the newer andriod phone got rid of the sd card slot turn damn apple.
You’re absolutely right, but sad truth is, everyones too lazy and just don’t care. It really baffled me when Sony pulled hundreds of digital shows from your account. Just goes to show that what when you purchase something digital, it actually isn’t yours when at any time, all of your content can just go fuck itself.
In an ideal world it'd go:
- Media releases for open-ended rental download (or "buy" as they currently call it).
- Media goes onto subscription services in 3 months.
- Physical media release 6 months to a year later (caveat: medium used must not require an internet connection to use).
- Accept that pirates are gonna pirate and really don't account for a large potential audience anyway.
Not gonna lie, I kinda envy the old guys who are happy with a hobby like fishing or bowling that are never gonna have to stress over stuff like this.
As convenient as streaming services like Spotify and such are, they will never compare to actually owning a CD, VHS tape, DVD, game or even a book.
Physical media will always be better than digital.
100% agree
@fumangus69 And what do you think walkans are for?
but cd and dvd are digital
@fumangus69 why would you even want to? Touch grass ffs
@fumangus69 Then enjoy the world when you go out. Stop trying to block yourself off from it. Pay attention
This is so true💯 As a 2000's baby, I always felt the same way because music and television used to be so authentic and entertaining.
I’m an 80s baby and because I favor physical over digital, I NEVER owned an iPod! Also, being a Windows person, I never owned a single Apple product period until I got my first iPhone in late 2008!
Being a windows user and having physical media are 2 very smart things XD@@adultmoshifan87
@@adultmoshifan87 As an 80's baby myself, my first album was vinyl, and I'm going back to just that.
Early zoomers are so underrated. Really appreciate you.
80’s kid myself. I’m also going back to physical media. This video hit the nail on the head.
I've recently come to the same conclusions and I've started collecting CDs and 4K Blu-rays again. I'm much happier for it.
Stop lying
@@fivehundrediq5212grow the hell up, dumb$hit.
Yeah me too
Yeah me too
Same here.
I recently built a home theatre and am now collecting 4K Blu-rays for the first time. It feels great knowing you own what you’re watching and experiencing it in the best format possible. Also, those movie menus took me wayy back. I am now collecting vinyl and playing them on the same home theatre I watch movies on. It’s amazing.
This video has inspired me to start buying CDs and a CD player for once in my life. Spotify has showed me what music I like to listen to and now I can stop using it to just buy the albums outright. Thank you so much for your take on this Brendan, it has helped me greatly.
I still buy cd’s and physical copies of dvds/video games.
It’s says a lot about a person when you see the kinda movies someone has in their home.
Besides, what if we lose the internet sometime in our lifetime..
The frequency depends on where you are. In the middle of the city internet connection outages are less frequent than in the sticks, generally speaking.
Not me with 1,300 blu rays 😂😅
Exactly...no ads. And it just feels different owning a physical copy. Plus u get all the extras and bonus scenes. And once u pay for it no monthly fees. Its just yours. Streaming only works if its a movie or show u only watch every blue moon or dont want
I just screen cap what I stream (and if I like it, keep that shit forever on a giant HDD)....and before someone screams piracy, it's no different than using a vcr to record shows like we all did back in the day.
Soon the companies will just block any devices that can do that. This world sucks
I had an uncle who died before I ever even met him but he left behind a couple mixtapes of music he enjoyed and I love listening to those. It makes me feel connected to him, and he had a banger taste in music. You're so right that's not something a Spotify playlist can really replicate unless there's a lot of intentionality put into it
That’s a personal thing at the end of the day it’s more a burden than anything else to keep all of that physical junk
Yeah
What's worse is that big corporations (except for Walmart) want to get rid of physical media.
I recently got a record player and some classic vinyls. It feels awesome to let the whole album playthrough without the urge to skip a song. Play it the way the artist intended. I used to love buying a CD and opening up the insert to read the lyrics & the artwork. Having these at your disposel is better than relying on your phone to connect to the web. Sometimes with options, less is more
Physical media is the FUTURE!!!
I agree 👍 💯 percent 🎉❤. The people deserve to own what they like 👍 not just have access to it by controlling media streaming services! Long live physical media. POWER TO THE PEOPLE!🎉
You mean the past. Once corporations can figure out how to digitize a cheese burger and fries then sell a monthly subscription for it they will. The sad part is, the masses will immediately start renting their food.
Once you open Pandora’s box, it can’t be closed again.
The battle for the future is being fought in the youth, who have never know what it is to spend money on owning a CD or DVD, and as long as parents purchase family plans to all these streaming services, they never will.
And indie will soon be in the grave.
Yeah I know
That's the problem with mainstream music. It's also boring, uninspiring and hollow. I'm so glad I never fell into the mainstream trap.
Me too
I think you missed the point of the video. It doesnt talk about mainstream music. It is about the streaming era. Two very different topics.
Also you dont have to like mainstream music. But keep in mind that mainstream music isnt automatically bad, boring or hollow. Its just a different kind of art. Apart from that art also doesnt have to have a big meaning. Art can also just be fun. No shame in that.
My wife discovered my old collection of sitcom and comedy dvds from high school. She expressed surprise as she didn’t know I was into that sort of media. It’s strange what you can learn about a person about their possessions. In a way, its also sad that there’s so much of our inner lives and our past that are not communicated by the ‘privacy’ of digital media.
I cancel all of my subscriptions. The golden era of streaming is over. The studios slowly but surely make their apps to be the new cable channels now. It is so fragmented, full of shits, and full of ads. I'm back to own my own contents.
This is so true, I remember when a new artist album would come out it was an event. Now everything is lost in streaming platforms.
The amount of music being released is impossible to manage
Streaming is just cable TV with extra steps. I'm 40 now and I called the digital age out at the beginning. I'm not angry at where this has all gone but I recognise it. My physical collection of music, films and games are still with me even though I will stream stuff too. It will never fully return to where it was. Things will move on and become even more fast paced. You just have to know where you want to stop or slow down when it comes to consumption.
Ikr? Streaming is a scam.
Cable rocks
@@Warp2090cable has problems honestly
@@Warp2090 cable is fine but once the content goes you can’t rewatch it
Another thing is if you pay for a movie on youtube and later it becomes available on youtube momentarily for free then when it goes back to not being free you no longer own it. This happened to me.
or it can be taken from your library at anytime too witch so sucks.
The fact that this video gets nostalgic for the early 2010s makes me feel incredibly, INCREDIBLY old! Nonetheless, excellent analysis. I grew up in the 90s where there was absolutely a lot of garbage, but there was also a lot of awesome stuff to be discovered. There were record / vhs / dvd stores that were great places to talk to people, browse the selection and learn about new albums, films etc. In an age where everything is curated to keep giving us comfort food, there’s a real loss of that sense of discovery and the wonder that comes with it.
talking about music now:
the point of not really owning the music we listen to, is one of the main reasons why i don’t use Spotify and why i choose to download the songs i like instead.
Even if physical media made a comeback, I wouldn’t trust the record companies and studios to not do something shady like require all new CD and blue ray players to have a Wi-Fi connection so they could block the playing of used discs or to block or edit content on physical media as well. They would absolutely try to pull something like that.
Even more of a reason to get into physical media before it's too late
Let me see how they will block my record player. Its literally a piece of wood and a small belt.
Exactly, and I'll be damned if I'm going to pay for led zeppelin's physical graffiti for the 12th time in some new format. I've paid for it, i own the things i've paid for several times over in several formats and I'm done doing that. I can play it on my walkman, or my record player, or my dvd player or my cassette tape etc
Research the first sale doctrine, this would be illegal.
@@hunterlander But you assume they care about legality
absolutely on point! Physical media gets more important by the day as people aren't realizing the consequences with streaming & preferring convenience, no matter the price increases, over ownership & art. Love the point about the sentimentality of a physical product as an extension of someone & bringing you closer to that person.
This dropping right as I've been splurging on my movie and music collection again. Couldn't agree more.
What's really crazy is stuff that is only 10 or 20 years old can be so difficult to find on physical media, to say nothing of the classics. They just stopped making discs once streaming got too big.
Great art just disappears, and no one notices.
Same here. I've bought 53 albums so far and I'm continuing to grow my collection
With physical media you only need to pay for it once
the streaming model is unsustainable and therefore will implode inevitably
I've started to go back and buy physical media, I have quite the collection now. The reason I've started collecting is for a few things. 1. You actually own the thing you purchase 2. The physical release is typically free from censorship, and has tons of bonus features 3. Physical media looks and sounds better than Streaming. Seriously, it does. CDs are a lossless audio format. DVDs and Blurays have much better compression than a streaming service.
One thing I miss though in this modern day... Is going to a video store. That was so fun. You could go and pick out the thing you wanted cheaper than at other places, or find hidden gems you wouldn't have found otherwise. Not to mention, you own the thing as soon as you buy it. No need to wait for it to ship out. I miss going in these places and finding something to check out, just because it looked interesting.
Well... Thats all I got. Peace.
Don't let physical media die. That's what they want. Don't let them. They want us to own nothing and be happy about it. I say No.
Yeah I know
Unless it’s Star Wars original films but thankfully the theatrical releases is on them
I'm not a fan of subscriptions/renting no matter whether its music, games or movies. They edit the content or take it out altogether as it might cause offence or due to expired licenses etc etc. I've never understood why people would opt to buy(or should i say rent) movies from their tv box provider. As if you want to change your provider you've then lost all that content, this is how they tie you down. I buy physical, that way i'm in control of it. If i don't own it, i don't care to. I've lost nothing should i wish to move or cancel a service. All these companies just want a regular income from you, they try every trick/scam to get it and to keep a hold on you.
Ok but you’re ok paying monthly insurance?
@@fivehundrediq5212I mean do you do it ?
Its 2024 and I still walk around with my Ipod classic 😇
You are exactly right - it’s *not* just about the song or the story. It’s about the memories and experience. Physical media gives you that. Streaming does not. Streamed content has no context. It never really becomes part of your life. Not in the same way, anyway. People click off things if they aren’t grabbed within 30 seconds. When choice was more limited, people made an effort to like the films or music or books they had access too, and sometimes fell in love with them, but after a while, not right away. Some things need space to grow on you, time to breathe. This is usually true for anything that takes any risk.
And yeah, how many of those millions of shows or movies, or albums, or playlists, or books, does anyone ever *actually* consume? Not many
I’m cancelling all my streaming services, all of them, and going back to physical
That’s me, but nice to know I’m not alone
Romanization is not a good reason to keep something around, you need to make practical sense
Romanticization is an excellent reason to keep things around, it makes practical sense.
@@fivehundrediq5212it depends honestly if you love something you should have it on collection
streaming feeds into the loss of attention and lack of memory building. If you grew up in the 80's and 90's you likely know every single word, beat ,guitar solo, click,pop,drop out of your physically owned media....with streaming those memory building activates are lost. you simply get lost in a world of endless background music.,,but I think its damaging to development and character .
The great irony of this so-called progress is that I am once again running into a familiar problem: hundreds of options and nothing to watch. I gave up looking for anything specific on streaming platforms long ago. At least nine times out of ten, they won't have what I'm looking for, so I just scroll through whatever the algorithm presents me with. And I scroll, and I scroll, and I scroll... It seems like everything I get access to either doesn't interest me, or I've already seen. It's just like channel surfing in days of yore, but at least we had video stores as an alternative. Honestly, if you're ever in the mood for something specific, you're better off consulting your collection of physical media. At least there you know that it contains stuff you like, and it will be there when you go looking for it.
I would not say phisical is necessariely better, but rather that owning is better than streaming. And I mean true owning, like having the actual file on your Device
True I just think physical is the ultimate ownership I guess
and when buying something physical, you either have to finish it or return/sell it, where as streaming gives a wide variety of choice yet lacks quality in the shows they produce
This is really good. And it's also why I have started ripping my DVDs and Bluerays to a media server and canceled most streaming services. I own it, it won't change and when I flip through the library I will have a memory attached to all the content and build more as I purchase.
As long you have your music and videos on discs or hard drives that you can access without the internet, you’re safe. The streamer can pull the content anytime.
They will fix that problem, just like they did with Napster users
I also rip my DVD's to my NAS and use Infuse in my AppleTV to stream from my local NAS. Already there is 303 DVD's but that is only a small amount of my DVDs. Blurays and UHD BluRays I leave on the disc only, those files are too huge to store since I have around 200 UHD movies and lots of BluRays as well, but DVDs are so small that it is easy to store to NAS.
You touched on a huge part of this. The biggest issue in my opinion in the age of streaming is that you don't really own the media anymore. Since its not a physical copy, you are perpetually dependent on, say, Amazon being up and running to access and consume the media you bought on those platforms. Sometime in the future when say Amazon has gone defunct, or the Xbox live servers go down, you won't be able to access the movies, games, music, etc that you bought. With physical media, it could be 70 years from now, I'm in my 90s, and still be able to pop in that record, or DVD, or Halo 3 for the 360 and still use it, assuming I keep the hardware in working order. A nuclear war could end modern civilization, but with physical media you can preserve the art and access it with nothing more than a generator and outlet.
Right now I'm gonna go and play one of my grandpas old records I just discovered today
I was in the middle of Mad Men and Ray Donovan on Prime both disappeared from their service before i could finish them. And they only ever had the first 3 seasons of Animals. So i resorted to a mixture of buying physical media and other sources for my content
I also miss the fact that my friends and I used to exchange games to try out or play before getting a copy ourselves. Now that half of them are on steam, but we still be collecting physical cartridges when we buy something for the switch. As for movies, we used to rent them from our local libraries, but due to streaming services they do not renew or expand their collections anymore
I couldn't agree more. I was born in 84 and still buy all my cds and movies for all the reasons you described. I remember when album releases were a huge anticipation, same with movies. Now that thrill is gone. I love when people complain that what they want to watch isn't streaming, I just laugh and say, "I don't have that problem." Great video! 👍🏻
Alot of people seem to want a return to good stuff like physical media being more prominent again but they also immediately throw in the towel saying whats gonna happen is gonna happen with everything going digital and degrading in value. If its something you care about then fight for it and do what you can to keep it some things are timeless and worth holding on to. If you don't like the way things are change them yeah one person can't do it alone but one person can inspire another then that person inspires another and before you know it your side outnumbers the other. Even if it is hopeless fight anyways better to try and fail then to never try at all there no shame in failure only in giving up. This can apply to literally anything you love and care about in life the power is in your hands never give up.
Walmart & BestBuy says otherwise
@@fivehundrediq5212actually Walmart still sells physical media but sadly not best buy
@@fivehundrediq5212 cause they know some perfer digital which is why they sadly forgot about it
The streaming era also destroyed the art of backstage commentary, back then DVD's were incredible pieces of art because most of them were not only the "product" movie or series, but also the making off, extras, audio commentary, deleted scenes and special menus. Back then people collected DVD's and even rated them (a Simpsons DVD was excellent for the extra content). None of that exists now and we don't know or even have access to the making of media now.
I always try to go the theater to see a movie I really want to see, and then decide if I buy it on Blu-ray. Never do I buy digital.
i love this video! i’m guilty of not appreciating physical media enough but have pledged to start and am even trying to get those around me interested and excited about it
Netflix has begun with highering the prices for their bad streaming offers. Then going one step forward and disallowed sharing your account outside of your home.
Now Disney followed and next is prime video
Spotify will also be more expensive.
How I knew it already 10 years ago? It's my secret
It’s not hard if you can really look at costs
Renting music forever and paying for the music you don't listen to or even like isn't something I'm interested in doing.
In the end you'll own nothing and would have spent more time scrolling through millions of albums rather than actually listening
Yeah
I'd like to own a lot of my media, but one practical reason for why I choose not to anymore is that I don't want to have a bunch of stuff to schlepp and I think a lot of people tacitly have this problem.
Given that being able to afford rent is really difficult day, the last thing you want is to own a lot of things that are not essential and then being forced to move out of your apartment, or basement or dwelling cause you can't afford it anymore and having to carry boxes of CDs and DVDs and things that are not as essential to your survival and, for which, if you have to pay for storage they only add to the cost.
Essentially, I want to be as light as possible not owning a ton of unnecessary things in case I have to move in an emergency situation.
Fair enough
same here.
You mean embracing the concept/lifestyle of being minimalists right? Because that exactly what I did. SMALL library of timeless relevant physcial media to have while accepting digital media being useful when needed. It actually frugal and efficient this way.
@@edgaryzen4925 well no. I’d love to own more stuff. I just need a home of my own and enough space to feel confident about having more stuff.
I've been leaning into the idea of being more conscience of what I buy, but CDs and content are an exception in my opinion. I like buying CDs because that means no company can take my music or movies away. Outside of those I am trying to be more conscience of what I buy. Recently a family member showed me a picture of something they found in a store that I might like, and I did like it but didn't buy it as it would just clutter my space.
Greed will kill all that is good in this world, we will happily comply and call it progress.
I have a pile of CDs in my room and honestly, using CDs to listen to music just feels so much easier
I agree, everything fades out so much quicker and especially with albums people always move on from them after a week or two, and it doesnt have as much meaning as it used to for people no matter how good the album may be, which is just really sad especially
That is one of the reasons I'm set up to play records. You go out of our way to do it. It takes a certain amount of time and effort. And since you're nurturing a finite collection, you return to those titles over time, get to know them, develop associations with when you listened and with whom. All that is still possible today.
That’s capitalism for you
it is so true what you said about the memories & how they are associated w/ physical media. i was just thinking the other day about how my family used to own just 1 stereo that us kids would have to share. my brother & i used to fight over which song we'd get to play, his favorite or my favorite. back then i wished for a music player of my own so i wouldn't have to share. nowadays we ALL have our own devices which we stream spotify playlists on, no CDs, no stereos, no boomboxes or any of the physical stuff we used to have. & it's so dull b/c nobody interacts anymore, we are all in our own little digital world where we don't even own a copy of the record we're listening to!
Trends used to last for 1 to 2 and a half years almost 3 years. Gen Z trends lasts for 2-6 months and zoomers already kill it off and consider it dated by the later half of the year. To me that's a problem.
u r being very generous most last for only 1 month 😂 not even that, on the internet maybe a week
@@fernthaisetthawatkul5569 yeah deadass and if you use it longer than a month for example you're called cringe and you're living in the past 😂
Yeah
This is why I don't follow stupid trends and do whatever I want regardless of whether it's considered "in" at that moment or not.
People Still Listen to the music that came out 1984 and they Should do so on CD s and Vinyl and NOT Spotify.
I'm only 21. Why do I feel so old.
Bc so much has changed in our short lives. I'm 22 and the instability is killing our generation.
I’m age 25 and perfer physical media
Just this year I purchased a used Sony Walkman. In both cassette and cds. And just started collecting cassettes. I’m done with streaming music. I rather have something to show for my money
To me, buying Albums and having a CD collection were a big part of why I enjoyed music in the first place. I remember as a kid I would spend the ride home from the electronics store in the backseat of my mom's car going through the booklet of a CD I just bought, appreciating the artist's and designer's collaborative effort to make the music "touchable". In 2024 all of that is gone. My music is nieche and therefore doesn't even see physical releases most of the time. Meanwhile whatever CDs I had are crumbling away due to their age, some of them being barely playable anymore because as it turns out the "CD" isn't exactly a durable medium.
Now does this mean streaming at least prevents me from losing my favorite music due to it's age? No. When I go through my barely 6 years old Spotify Playlists a good chunk of music I collected is already missing due to artists removing their work, licenses expiring and well... Whatever else reason this might have(?). It's not happening often enough to be a complete dealbreaker (yet) but it is defenitely often enough to be a huge inconvenience since there is almost no way to recover it, leaving me with tracks and songs I've built emotional connections to being inaccessable.
That's why last year I started downloading music again and I'm currently trying to collect the best music out of 6 years of streaming, to be independent from whatever tricks spotify and co. will pull on us in the near future.
Think of it this way: The longer you wait to own your music, the more of a pain in the ass it will be to do it when spotify's disadvantages will outweigh the advantages. (Which will happen at one point, their business model is unsustainable in it's current form)
...and I haven't even touched on any of the other problems spotify is causing like artists changing their production style in an attempt to "hack the algorithm", making the first 30 secs of a song the most exciting ones so they can earn money when you don't skip away/ mass producing slop to shit something out every other month in order to stay "relevant", instead of taking their time and making music from the heart.
I grew up in the 80s and we all had like 2 channels. As a result, all of the kids watched the same handful of ultra popular cartoons. It was a way to relate to one another. I don’t see that anymore and when my kids grew up, I don’t think my kids will look back at their weekend tv viewing as fondly as I do mine.
Well they probably don’t use tv anymore
@@watchforever1724 My children still watch tv for downtime (they're elementary school aged). So do most of their peers that they're friends with. From what I've seen, slightly older children had a lot of hands-on tablet and phone exposure at a really young age, but children still in grade school now seem to have slightly less access to portable devices (maybe parents feel more comfortable with televisions).
This is just my personal experience - maybe its not common in this day and age?
I ditched streaming services and created my own home media server. It has shows I like and I have control over, and best of all I still have the physical disc copy so say if the media server craps out I can still use my ps5 as a movie player.
me who spent money on Bandcamp to get the song in a form of support:
That point about there not being music "everyone" knows is pretty solid and a point I didn't think before. I remember when I was a kid, because the only way to consume music without spending money was to either listen to the radio, or watch MtV or VH1, there was a selection of Top 100 songs that everyone knew regardless of what kind of music fan you were. I think there are benefits to streaming, namely that I don't think it's a bad thing that people can end up finding niche genre's and artist due to how accessible music is nowadays. But, I think you're right that we no longer have this connection with each other because nowadays because can just stick to their playlists.
I don't know if the answer is to entirely revert back to physical media, but I can agree that we should try and strike some type of balance.
There was the same sense of "community" in terms of TV shows, once upon a time. Look up the Nielsen rating numbers for things like the "Who Shot J.R.?” episode of _Dallas_ or the final episodes of _Cheers, Newhart_ or _MASH;_ those audience share numbers from back in the days before there were 700 cable channels are a thing of the past, simply because there is such a flood of content. As Bruce Springsteen observed in the early 90s:
_”. . .there's 57 channels and nothing on."_
BTS is one group that EVERYONE knows
That "community" was mostly delegated to breakroom and idle bullshit let's be real, how many deep discussions have been had about Britney Spears Toxic, I love not having to go to a music or media store or the rare time I go to town a scene place or music themed café and either ask around or sift through hundreds of albums just to find a compromise, this is only a real loss to the record labels and artists.
We can't take the music industry back to where radio, MTV, VH1, stores, and the big three have all the power.
That will limit the music you can listen to.
Answer: hybrid media :)
ngl if i magically become a hit artist then i'm not releasing my albums on spotify for the first few months
I still keep listening to my cassetes, my vinyls, cds… and SOMETIMES I get my iPod nano for a walk.
Man at times I sit and wonder and listen to how you construct things and how they play a part in our day to day lives, you made another step in your platform, well done.
Mannnnnnn this video just hit me bro!!!! I am 34 (born in 89, grew up in the 90s) and I remember buying an album or watching a tv show were moments. Now there is so much media and music constantly at our finger tips that albums are out of rotation in 2-3 weeks MAX. And the sad part is I don’t even know how to revert to make myself wanna focus on 1 album longer than a month. I KNEW I would hate where music was going when my homie purchased B.o.Bs first album “the adventures of Bobby Ray” in 2010 of iTunes…..they gave my boy a pdf file with the album artwork, like someone literally unfolded and xeroxed the front and back side in and put the 2 parts onto a sheet in the pdf……. I knew I hated where digital music was going at that very moment….
I always want to have options to choose either physical or digital.
Sometimes you want to have something physical in your hands to own.
Sometimes the physical copy is so rare you will have to know where to find it, thus is why Digital does have positives.
But to throw out the baby with the bath water just for this all digital future, this is going to end badly for everyone.
"Take artists like Morgan Wallen and Bad Bunny, for example" WHOOOO???? 🤔 This is the first time i even heard these names. And i already forgot them.
Never heard of them
It took me years to stream music because I said streaming was paying to borrow. I do stream now sometimes but I still buy the music I love in physical form because I want to own it.
When streaming first came about my brother gave all his music away saying he didn’t need them anymore and they were just taking up space, I never understood it. Fast forward a decade and now he’s trying to get his music back, realising that ownership is the only direction we should be going in because big media can’t be trusted.
That’s your only reason? Is owning it? Pre Automobile you actually owned a horse, You technically never own a car but the car is better than a horse
@@fivehundrediq5212 I don’t have a car.
Horses are better for the environment.
@fivehundrediq5212 the reason I stream music is A) radio does not play the music I like. B) I would never be able to listen to the music I like based on what Sony, Universal, and Warner music sell.
I personally cut out streaming music and reverted back to only listening to music I have a physical copy of and it did help me appreciate the stuff I liked alot better.
Yeah
I will always continue to reject this crap of digital streaming services and digital media, I abhor this garbage that is so boring, I have always embraced my great passion for collecting comics in physical format, of course physical media (DVDs, Blu-rays and CDs), my parents, my younger sister, and of course my family, even my school friends, gave me a better condition to hate and see how digital streamings are pure crap, physical media discs will always be better solutions to be happy in a healthy lifestyle, I say no to Netflix, Amazon Prime and other streaming services, long live DVDs, CDs and Blu-rays.
Yes, I still have my gamecube, and ps2 and sony walkman and record player and dvd player and vhs player and all of my favorite cd's, tapes, games, records etc. If they ever decide to just shut off access to streaming content, or the grid goes down, I will be able to read my books and play my cd's so long that I can find a battery and candlelight.
I’m so glad this topic of conversation is being discussed !!!
Everything being digitalised takes away from the natural excitement and anticipation when something gets newly released or discovered.
When digital products overpower the physical product in the market,
it leaves less room for physical media to still prolong its existence and be a consumer purchase.
Wow, you really got to the heart of the matter there. What sucks in my life is not having the space I once had for storage. I think many people find themselves having to go digital out of necessity.
Hell yeah man. I’ve been buying a lot of Blue-Rays lately. Especially Disney movies because one day Disney will make animated replacements for older movies and they will remove the “original” versions from Disney+ and they will make it illegal to resell or to buy their Blue-Rays from other people.
The primary reason why songs don't last these days isn't because of how people listen; it's because the songs themselves are crap. Same for movies and TV shows.
True that
Yeah
Streamings biggest problem is that so much created contend will seize to exist if the streamingservice drops it and you cant buy it on dvd ..
Yeah
I miss the era of album releases being big events so much. No one is connected to artists anymore and they don't see value in music as an art form. I also couldn't agree more with what you said about how it's all too targeted now too. The whole current system is just plain broken.
As Gen Z, I prefer music from the 80s , 90s and early 2000s. I feel jealous of the ppl born before my generation who were fortunate enough to experience an era where media and art was genuine and creative.
Good video! I'm still buying cd's like it's 1993, and I only watch movies on physical media. About once a year I might briefly listen to something on Spotify - usually because someone sent me a link - but otherwise I don't go there, and I have NEVER streamed a movie or tv show. It may sound pretentious af, but choosing to buy physical media instead of having limitless access to everything through streaming helps me remember the value of music and movies. It may not help the creators in any meaningful way, since the old consumer/creator relationship is practically dead, but it helps me to appreciate these things more instead of taking them for granted and demand that I have immediate access to them on my phone/tablet/laptop every second of every day. I'm just not in any way interested in that.
Stop physical media, illegally download your stuff. :)
It’s sometimes hard to keep that media you love like that
I own my own house, I don't rent it. I own my own physical media, I don't rent it.
Owning something you are passionate and excited about is a much more fulfilling experience than renting or borrowing it.
And streaming music means you'll be renting it forever, some company will be sucking $ out of your account periodically until you die.
You'll also be paying for the stuff that you don't listen to or even like.
You'll own nothing in the end.
At least with physical media it's somewhat of an investment that appreciates in value that you can pass on to your kids and grandkids.
I have my grandparents records and the connection I maintain with them can't be had by streaming or a usb stick.
If you pay taxes on your house, you don't own it
So you bought your house and everything you own without using any form of credit? (mortgage, car payment, credit cards, etc). You’re missing out on some sweet cash-back $$ yo! 😂
Evwryone pays taxes, its a fact of life you have to deal with. And its still cheaper and superior to renting where you cant even do anything with the house.@@Vibrantly_Monochromatic
Comparing house to said music player is a bad one. One and done transaction vs continuous transaction
Yeah. Good art no longer has any space around to use for thinking. All space is occupied. Watching a good movie on Netflix is like trying to look at a painting surrounded by loud gambling machines.
Perfect analogy
Instant access to unlimited anything you can think of is bad for the human psyche.
This video is legit. As a musician I can say that streaming ruined things. When people were willing to buy CDs I had a bigger audience. I actually made a little bit of money. Then things went to people buying MP3s instead. And that was still basically OK even though I personally prefer a CD. But then Spotify happened and the bottom fell out. It's near impossible to get an audience now and even when you do Spotify only pays like a thousandth of a penny for a stream, so those CDs sales are definitely gone. People are willing to buy a record now so that's nice and I love records myself but producing records is a very large upfront cost to do it correctly and you'll never sell them all unless you're already very well known. CDs on the other hand are reasonably cost effective to make professionally but no one wants them now. Streaming has taken over. There really is something to be said though about buying a CD or a record and holding it, looking at it, reading it, listening to it and enjoying it that streaming will neve replicate. I think we lost something here. Both as listeners and as musicians.
Streaming is destroying our modern entertainment there are too many of them now it's getting beyond ridiculous get physical Media you get artwork keep it forever in it's purest form
No it’s not, that’s a you problem
It’s capitalism and consumerism and lobbying and Nepotism
Try socialism
Definitely agree that TV was more than just consuming media. Adult Swim was a good example. I also remember as a child looking forward to ABC Family’s Countdown to Christmas movie lineup and making sure to tune in when my favorite movie was on. Things like that don’t happen anymore.
This was good stuff! I've been thinking about this a lot lately with all the crazy stuff happening with WB.
I do disagree with your music opinion. I do think physical options need to always be available for everything. It really sucks to see stores like Best Buy phasing this stuff out
It’s strange how I’ve been seeing this coming for so long and the younger generation always defends digital content.
It’s as if people are just now starting to see it… now that it’s too late.
recently Jet Set Radio Soundtrack was removed from streaming services and people complained about it on twitter. I mean this is one of the reason why I don't rely on streaming services. I use it but it's like a Internet radio station. to me, Music is not one time thing. I always come back to music I loved. also there were music what didn't impress me at first time, but impressed me at 2nd or 3rd times.
While I'm glad physical media is still an option, there's no way to put this genie back into it's bottle. The complete democratization of popular music, I think, is a benefit, not a drawback. Not only does it allow more opportunities for artists who'd continue to be victims of systemic marginalization not even ten years ago, it also deemphasizes the need for consumers to keep up with trends to enjoy what they want. I feel like the longer we have streaming, the better artists will understand how to use it, the same way they did with movies, records, television and RUclips. More importantly, artists who gain a better understanding of it will figure out how to negotiate deals better than "a fraction of a cent for every thousand plays."
How does it help artists who would be victims of marginalization when Spotify pays less than a tenth of a cent per stream?
@@brendanspiegel At least they don't have to compromise their artistic vision before it reaches an audience.
@@gabe_s_videos yes they do, streaming didn't just cancel out all the business aspects of music
@@brendanspiegel Not when they can bypass the business entirely because all they need to do to share it with the world is press an "upload" button.
@@gabe_s_videos and their work goes unnoticed bc the market is way too oversaturated
Awesome video! Thank you so much :D
I miss watching Tv, it always felt like I was “apart” of what everyone else in the world was watching, like we were all watching together.
It's "a part" when u put it together it means the opposite
@@DanyTheMe Thank you Professor. Pretty sure you knew what I meant lol
@@robbyrdog I had to read your comment twice to figure out what you meant. No shame in making mistakes, just letting you know since in this case the mistake literally flips the thing you're trying to communicate.
@@DanyTheMe appreciate the help, you should become a grammar teacher.
I mean most people don’t use tv as much as they used to because iPhones and iPads have been the new form of the past
In german we say "Die Qual der Wahl" which means "The Torment of choice". That sentence describes the whole on demand thing quite well for me. It's true for video games as well. There are too many great games to choose from, I can't even get in to one and end up playing something I already know and have nostalgia for.
Been binging old Adult Swim broadcasts from the 2000s myself lately..you get it!!
Might seem weird but I physically enjoyed music more when all I had was one cd in my car. I don’t know, it’s like your brain can’t handle having every song at the fingertips.
I just found this video today but WHOA WHOA WHOA WHOA!! I have been saying "Reject Modernity" since 2019 and even made a shirt that with the phrase on it. You stole my catch phrase 😂
Great video btw
Absolutely! You have described the current situation perfectly. Thank you.