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b'We are very, very deep into the digital world when it comes to music\\u2026virtually every song we could ever want is available to us instantly no matter where we are\\u2026all we need is an internet connection and we\\u2019re good to go\\u2026\\n\\nThe music industry loves this\\u2026in the old days, they had no choice but to manufacture, warehouse, transport, and distribute physical product by the ton, sometimes across vast distances\\u2026once these CD\\u2019s and records and tapes made it into the stores, then the labels had to collect the money from the stores plus deal with the return of unsold product\\u2026it was all very complicated and expensive\\u2026\\n\\nNow with streaming, there\\u2019s no physical product\\u2026all the expensive overhead and those big fixed costs are gone\\u2026digital distribution is so much more efficient and profitable on every single level\\u2026\\n\\nAnd for music fans, this way of obtaining and consuming music is not just convenient, but intoxicating\\u2026 Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube, Soundcloud, Bandcamp\\u2026tens and tens of millions of songs\\u2026 for older people, this still feels like science fiction\\u2026\\n\\nAnd there are also generations who have never, ever set foot inside a record store\\u2026they\\u2019ve never, ever handled something like a record or a cd or a cassette\\u2026for them, music has always delivered without any kinds of container\\u2026it\\u2019s completely ephemeral, unseen zeroes and ones that beam from somewhere\\u2026\\n\\nWhile there will always probably be a market for music on physical formats, it\\u2019s going to shrink and shrink until it\\u2019s just a very niche-y thing\\u2026so be it\\u2026there\\u2019s no stopping progress\\u2026\\n\\nBut we are losing something\\u2026there are certainly pleasures and advantages to CD\\u2019s and vinyl\\u2026it appears, though, that many of these pleasures and advantages are also heading towards near-extinction\\u2026\\n\\nI call this \\u201cDigital Debris\\u201d\\u2026here\\u2026let me show you what I mean\\u2026\\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices'