Personality

Totally Agree

@rvpiano  I have not taken the leap into streaming for  two reasons.  First, is the additional cost (I almost said investment) of new equipment.  The second reason is my current collection of music.  While not large, between CDs & LPs I have about 2500 selections.   On average, I listen to three selections every evening.  +/- two hours.  At that rate, I will only hear the same selection once every 2 - 2.5 years.  And I'm still buying new music all the time.  Maybe it's my upbring but I prefer to own and not rent.  Cheers.

@rvpiano Although I don't stream, I can understand the sentiment.

My take is that there's no "you" involved in streaming. All one does is scroll and push buttons. Scrolling and pushing buttons are done by you, but are not sufficient sometimes. The physical presence using streaming is lacking. 

I feel that is more difficult to connect with something if it lacks a physical presence. There's the physical aspect: getting up, finding the CD or LP, putting it on the player etc... And there are the emotional connections we make to memories brought up by listing to the music again.

My apologies for the poor description I've given.

Same thing applies to reading books/magazines. I prefer to own the physical object rather than getting it on a screen. 

are you asking the same questions over and over?