@herrbischoff@mastodon.social I do not have and have never had accounts with any of the paid streaming services. One thing about some of us autistic folks: the same music stays interesting so a fixed/local library with slow and infrequent additions works fine. I have kept all electronics I own isolated from the corporate world from Google and Facebook on down. When I was playing, it was a fact that some better musicians were playing only in their own homes than had big-time record contracts. If you were lucky you might hear one of them playing as a session musician at a studio or filling in in some club. They (like myself) were blocked from any distribution bigger than tape sharing, which had limited reach due to generation loss. I and my band did a few club shows in 1993 as "MidKnight" before things fell apart, which is further than many ever got. The industry from its beginnings through that time was a total crapshoot: a few got hugely rich, most got crumbs or nothing. There was even the infamous case of Chess records being sued after refusing to pay royalties owed to Muddy Waters and Willie Dixon. That was some real piracy-by a record company itself.