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I just pledged to the new @pluralistic #Kickstarter and you can too! #martinhench #martyhench #enshittification
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/doctorow/picks-and-shovels-marty-hench-at-the-dawn-of-enshittification?ref=thanks-copy

A short, new blog post about my newfound love of trains in Japan.

#japan #trains #travel #photography

https://askdna.coffee/jptrains

@alexhammy @evan Or just don't hate?

@gnitro Totally! The most recent record to annoy me about this topic just came through town recently. I already had their digital-only album in my bc wishlist, but hey! They have vinyl at the merch table! Great! Got home, had a listen, but no download card. Now here I am at a day job desk with no digital copy. Ugh. It's easy to make dl codes on #bandcamp and slip into sleeve.

First world, problems, I know, but...

Purchasing a #vinyl record should include #digital copy. It's 2023.

It brings me great joy to have this #soundtrack on #vinyl.

#cowboybebop #anime #lps #music #YokoKanno

@gnitro @anime Nice! Love City Hunter.

@gnitro @speckledlemon Holy smokes! You're one of THOSE people. Haha! That is kind of amazing and I'm a little jealous.

@gnitro @speckledlemon My wishlist is getting embarrassing. Wish I could buy it all.

@speckledlemon @gnitro Yes. I have such a love/hate relationship with streamers for this reason. It is pretty cheap, instant access to music is practically a modern miracle that I take for granted now. As a musician, myself, though, I hate it so much. You pretty much HAVE to be there (and Google, and Apple, and all the others), essentially for free - just another in a long history of ways artists get screwed over.

Wish I could convince myself to just give it up and stick to Bandcamp or, better yet, direct from artists.

Sorry for the tangent.

@gnitro @speckledlemon Nice! That's fair. :MusicDance:

@gnitro Fair.

Also, didn't know Spotify is going to increase in price again. :(

To be honest, I cancelled all my subscription services except Spotify early this year.

I have a private server for my old mp3s and wav files (of which there are many) and I use Bandcamp more than anything, really, but dang it! There's just no substitute for instantly calling up virtually any song in recorded history, instantly.

That said, the cheapest will likely win my favour, so maybe I should give YT another look. Haha!

@gnitro I came from Songza, which was eaten by G Play Music, which became YT Music. Tried YTM for a several months, expecting them to fix things up eventually - they were new - but really disliked the navigational mess with which they seemed content. Ended up switching to Spotify for a much cleaner experience.

Someone recently told me though that YTM had improved this. Is it an overall good, easy-to-use experience now? Would you recommend it or is it more of a preference thing?

@gnitro @vinylrecords This album is very aesthetically pleasing.

This is the look of a girl who doesn't know why she's in trouble after finding a baby duck in the back yard and SWALLOWING IT WHOLE while I yell at her to DROP IT!

#dogsofmastodon #dog #dogs