I personally want to buy a CD-player and a laptop with a DVD drive and start collecting CDs and DVDs again. I think that it’s nice to own a physical copy of something. I also think this will make me listen to albums and watch movies more. I’m done with Netflix and Spotify since you don’t own the media you consume and they can take it down anytime. But it’s also nostalgia for me since DVDs and CDs were everywhere in my childhood and we went to the record store and the video store a lot.
But what do you think about it? And what do you think about CD vs Vinyl vs Cassette?
I believe strongly that you do not own anything that you do not have physically in your possession. For digital media this means anything that you “buy” that is stored on a cloud or on someone else’s server is not really yours. This doesn’t mean you have to fill your home up with CDs and DVDs but i personally back up all digital media that i own on external hard drives. This includes books, music, movies, games, etc. I also make sure i can access and use it all without an internet connection, because i for one do not trust that the internet as we know it will be around forever, or that our access to it will not be cut one day.