[Reubachi]

Gatekeeping music availability is weird. In most places, the idea of having all this music locally on a disk is impossible. How can someone in mongolia get a lossless, flac based discography of their favorite band from the 80s?

The music industry purposelessly makes it harder and harder to get lossless file based music for the first world, save for indie bands on bandcamp and the occasional release by a triple A band/label.And again, this is next to impossible in developing nations.

I don't have hundreds of hours and thousands of dollars to dedicate t getting every song I want to listen to on a whim in the above mentioned format, and I have much less time and money to manage those across my devices in a format that is anything short of maddening.