I can stream more than 20cds worth from a catalog far more expansive than anything I could dream to store. It's simply worth the money for my usage. Moreover, I don't want to store anything locally, physically or otherwise. I'm ok with the risk of them pulling licensing, because after over a decade and a half of usage it's been an issue thats come up fewer than 5 times, and each time there was an alternative track/release available (i.e. part of a newer album or rerecorded).

I don't disagree with you. But I have a lot of CDs already :) The rationale for me is that it's all available. I watched a Billy Joel documentary recently (I know 🙄) but it made do a listen through his discography. I'm glad I didn't buy those. It turns out I already knew the songs I liked and discovered 0 enjoyable deep cuts. But even at $15 a disc that would have been a $200 play through. And yes I'm aware of the high seas and the library.

While true, I don't have to do any work at all right now to listen to as much music as I want and new music is available immediately. I also don't have to setup something to be able to stream music remotely so that I don't have to store all of it on my space limited device.

But I don't want random bandcamp samplings. I mean I like new music and go to a lot of Indy shows, but I want the ability to hear a song I like and then do a deep listen to the artist without committing to CDs or a trip to the library if it's available.