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Originally Posted by elphenor
you can buy random goofy stuff that might not even be uploaded to the web yet (until you do it) for 25ยข at thrift stores
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Originally Posted by tore
This scenario is so fake and contrived. Getting your music on services like Spotify and YouTube music is as cheap as getting a distrokid account, can even be done for free, and is likely much easier than making "cheap" cassettes.
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Nah, weird thrift store tapes are a legitimate thing. Most of them date back to the 80s and 90s before it was so easy to upload your music to the web.
Also let's see you run the tape from your distrokid account across the room to warble the sound while it plays. Until then, cassettes have a place.
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Originally Posted by tore
Something that is special about media like music, books and films is that their digital representations serve us very well, so western society could basically get on just fine without these things existing physically even today.
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Information is physical, and storing it indefinitely will likely contribute to a wider negative environmental impact than the one-time production of physical media.