I Quit Spotify So I Could Do This
I miss the good ol' days, don't you?
I've been buying a lot of cassettes lately.
Streaming services like Spotify made me forget the importance of forging your own music collection at home.
💡We love filling our bookshelves, but why have we stopped doing it with music?
There is still hope! So many people participate in Record Store Day, a day supporting independent music stores. It's happening on 12th April this year, and I recommend everyone to check out their local music store.
From my own little 'music store' (aka my dining room table) I have something special for those of you who love to hold music in your hands.
🌈🗻 To celebrate Record Store Day, I'm offering a bundle:
Typical Forever on CD + a 'Gneiss Guy' tote bag for £35 £20.
This offer only lasts until midnight on Sunday, so get in there while it's hot!
Add me to your collection and 'rock out' (heh heh) to songs about volcanoes, fossils, time and nostalgia.
Who knew geology could sound so good?
I will never stop loving mix-tapes or mix-cds which have been lovingly crafted by a friend and shared to me. There is something very deep in finding songs and tying them together with a thread of a message or theming.
I miss the days of Sellanby when I was at college and school. They bought and sold second-hand records and CDs and I would always find something I liked whenever I was there.
https://britishrecordshoparchive.org/shops/sellanby/
FWIW I don't do music streaming services and rather have it on my own music server I can access from anywhere, anytime. It is why I am happy to buy CDs and physical albums and rip them for my own consumption.
Thanks for sharing, Olivia. Really appreciate all your work.
I mentioned that I only really joined Spotify when I joined Substack. I have an iTunes library, but more importantly, I still bought CDs. As in, every time I went out of the Philippines—because most of our record stores are predictable and bland—I would go to a record store and buy CDs.
And then those record stores disappeared, and those that I could still go to wouldn't have what I have. Still frustrated the one I go to in Hong Kong does not carry the Olivia Dean album... on CD. Everything I want is in vinyl now! Ugh.