Why can't all music be on Google Play Music?

Why can't music streaming die and go back to the old ways. CD, Cassette and Vinyl. Back when people are appreciated music as a product and something to own.

If it were, I would surely buy from them.
But indies-only is not enough to choose a store, for me.

From a business POV, they've been kind of wishy-washy regarding the European VAT in 2015. I just re-checked their FAQ now and afer all this time, they finally updated it regarding this matter. That's because of things like this that people (or rather business) choose to sell on determined store or not.

When I was a lad...

No dig, that was what I was thinking! I remember putting two cassette players side by side to copy music. Kids nowadays, don't know their born.

I've learned to resent physical media in the last few years, mainly because of the sheer tonnage of packaging that ends up collecting dust on my bookshelves. I'll be selling off my CD collection pretty soon. Once you make a commitment to ditch all that paraphernalia, you can start living like a nomad of the digital age. Your hard drive is your kingdom!

Buying stuff in FLAC from Bandcamp is part of that lifestyle for me. It's basically gog but for music.

haha the good old days. I was bad for vinyl to tape. I still have those records and the tapes for that matter haha. I don't take offense to that at all. I know for a fact that music was a better more appreciated platform when I was a kid. Now it is disposable garbage. Thanks grunge and rap. My friend said the same thing and done just that. Boy does he regret it now.

Uh oh. What happened to him?

Don't tell me he sold his LoTR box sets and tried to find them on netflix?

A huge gigantic second hand record store opened up and his "No more physical music" turned into him looking depressed slumped over a stack of heavy metal records he'd been after for years lol.

Problem with that is, it's really hard for smaller music acts to actually get their stuff out there on disc/vinyl/tape/whatever, especially internationally. With the internet and digital distribution, it's much easier for musicians to publish and sell their work, and easier for people to discover new bands.

That said, I still buy most of my music on CD as well. ( And I don't do "streaming". When I buy music or other digital goods, it's in the form of permanent files/downloads. )

I like how amazon does it. Buy the CD/Vinyl, get the download. Bandcamp does the same deal for a majority of the bands.

Bandcamp and DGM Live the only places I buy digital music. Most other retailers that I've check will only sell lossy and/or proprietary compression (FLAC for the win!) or charge a such a ridiculous mark up that I might as well purchase the CDs from Amazon, get it delivered in 2 days with my pre-existing Prime account and then rip it myself. If the music industry truly cared about copyright infraction as much as they claim one would think that they would take much more substantial actions to make high quality music available at a fair price.

The music industry has already made the smartest choice possible: they chose streaming, which satisfies the vast majority of music lovers, and will likely remain profitable for decades. Local music files are for nerds, as Bandcamp likes to remind me every time I download their zips.

Local music files are for nerds? You sound like the kind of shits that lead to the destruction of the music business.