[adventurejs]

This is not just a Spotify thing, but is endemic to all streaming media. When I was a kid (way back in the 1970s) I first saw the Japanese anime Reideen when my dad took me to a friend's house for movie night, which meant showing movies on a film projector from his collection of (what were probably) 16mm film rolls, which were likely purchased from bootleg traders at comic book conventions. It was incredibly rare at the time. I loved it and fondly remember the experience fifty years later. Nowadays you can easily find the entire series on YouTube, along with every other damned thing.

There's a philosophical point of view that equates art to "making special", as in, art offers something different from the dull routine of survival. In my memory, seeing Reideen for the first time in that way was special. Now that it's part of the infinite buffet, it's just flattened out with everything else into mundane fungibility.