[rchaud]

Because it's not how music works anymore. People don't go to a store and buy an album. They rent from a service where your ownership of the music stops the second you cancel your subscription.

Even then they aren't picking albums or artists. They are served mixes from a bottomless carousel of user-created or algo-generated playlists. Most of the songs sound similar, as every playlist is designed to capture a specific mood. The artist becomes interchangeable. The album the track is from becomes meaningless. There's always something further down the playlist that sounds exactly like it.