While the environmental cost of streaming music is not negligible, the fact is that the servers and other infrastructure used to stream music are used for many other purposes. The marginal cost of streaming is likely less than the fixed costs of making vinyl records.
.> But if this is the sound and the feel of something that is made from a material less damaging than PVC, then these characteristics are not blemishes but beauties.
It most definitely is not beauty, if it sounds like crap, it is a bad technology. Why would you even listen if the “record [sounded as if] itself had tinnitus?” You might as well stream or use cassette tapes.
Music, like pretty much everything else, is caught up in petro-capitalism.
I never considered the politics of music consumption from an eco standpoint. Vintage vinyl and small scale live music seem to be the most sustainable way to be a music enthusiast.
While the environmental cost of streaming music is not negligible, the fact is that the servers and other infrastructure used to stream music are used for many other purposes. The marginal cost of streaming is likely less than the fixed costs of making vinyl records.
.> But if this is the sound and the feel of something that is made from a material less damaging than PVC, then these characteristics are not blemishes but beauties.
It most definitely is not beauty, if it sounds like crap, it is a bad technology. Why would you even listen if the “record [sounded as if] itself had tinnitus?” You might as well stream or use cassette tapes.
Wow. What a slap in the spirit of humanity!
I never considered the politics of music consumption from an eco standpoint. Vintage vinyl and small scale live music seem to be the most sustainable way to be a music enthusiast.