@Hyolobrika You can, but is it in a vendor-specific format that you can only open as long as you're a current subscriber? Is it a standardized format with low bitrate to deter copying? Is it infested with TUR (technical use restrictions, often euphemized as DRM) With physical media, you don't have to worry about such shennanigans.

(I grew up with records ["vinyls"] and tapes [cassettes and 8-tracks], but other than cassettes, I've not ever owned a playback device of my own. When Son_2 and my mom bought me a portable CD player a around 25 ago, it really opened up access to music for me.)

I have an old media player (plays MP3, OGG, and a few other formats), and only one song on the whole thing came from a digital download. The others are all copied from CDs that I bought. I'm planning to buy more, but only on CD.