Physical Media

Dear Reader,

We meet here because you are curious about physical media... Most people I know love music, you likely included, but most people I know have never owned music, held music in their hands. Instead, they rent it from a Greedy Guy named Daniel Ek, the co-founder of Spotify. He is wealthier than any artist on his platform, including Taylor Swift, and hopes to multiply his fortune investing in AI Weapons software. Think of all that anti-establishment punk music you listen to, funding the establishment.

Physical music is more fun and better for the environment than streaming, but I quit streaming because I wanted to listen to music differently. I wanted to engage with the music community. I was bored of the same algorithmic melodies fed to me via Spotify. I wanted to go to a record release show to hear a new album and listen to it in the order the artists intended. I’ll never go back. There is a burgeoning movement away from streaming services. Let me help you hop on this band wagon.

- excerpt from Physical Media mini-zine #1.