gosh i forgot how much i miss being able to buy music
obviously i still can buy a very small percentage of music zhrough stuff like bandcamp and rarely zhrough a CD or zhe like, but beyond zhat... zhe avenues i can give an artist money in exchange for zheir music are sliiiiim
antishoutout to Google killing off the music subsection of their play store, and to Amazon just plain not selling music outside of a few countries for no particularly apparent reason despite still having a music store
zhe few uneasy years when zhe itunes store still existed but gradually got more and more replaced by apple trying to Rent you your mp3s
on top of this there's like nowhere you can just buy .mp4 or .mkv files outside of porn sites, which like, if you're a porn site that still allows drm-free downloads then thank you from the bottom of my heart, but c'mon literally everyone else, get with the program. you are sitting on years and years of old movies that are going to rot anyway if you don't digitize them, and all the technology to distribute and watch digitized movies already exists, you wouldn't even have to lift a finger. just let me buy it instead of pirating it.