It's a bit on the nose to see a story on somebody ditching subscription services... being partially paywalled by, you guessed it, yet another subscription service!
This article is really weird, too. I mean, they ended their Spotify subscription because they've started collecting vinyl. This blog post smacks of "the burdens that people with lots of money must bear." If I had money to burn, I, too, would start buying vinyl records again and playing them. I've actually held on to the vinyl records I bought when I was a kid and then a teenager. I just don't play them because I never bothered to replace my record player that shit the bed in 2001. Since then, so many technological advances have happened to improve the sound quality of musical recordings and I jumped on the CD bandwagon like, I don't know, in the last half of the 1990s or so. I guess it depends on your needs. For example, I still keep up with music and the latest stuff that comes out. I could buy a Maluma vinyl record and pay fifty or sixty dollars, or listen to him every once in a blue moon on Spotify when I need some Maluma vibes in my house. Of all the subscriptions out there, Spotify, to me, is worth paying for because it saves me money and allows me the convenience of creating endless possibilities for "custom radio stations" AKA "playlists" as well as using other users' playlists they've published. This blog post is behind a pay wall and the person is writing about absolutely nothing relevant to us plebs who must be careful with our money. Oh yeah, I'd love to trot out some vinyl records and get that "vintage sound." This person who wrote this blog here, if they can afford vinyl records, they can afford vinyl records plus a subscription to Spotify. They ran out of things to talk about after they canceled their Netflix subscription, I guess (three cheers from me for that, along with cancelling all the streaming subscriptions, what a shit show). I just don't know. Spotify is one of the very few subscription services I think is useful and affordable for we plebs who like music. More economical than a vinyl hobby, if you ask me. And are you going to program the vinyl into a playlist? LOL. BTW, I did not pay money to read the blog post. I used archive.