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Do people really pay for this?
I pay for YouTube Music and premium gets thrown in for free. Why? It's mostly momentum.
I used Groove back when that was a thing, and when it folded I could migrate my playlists to YouTube so it was easy and than $10 a month. Now it's $30 but it's still like buying a cd a month. I am slowly de-googling and some month will stop using the service. It just hasn't been a top priority.
If you did this, you'd have like 20 CD's by the end of the year (way more id you can find used ones) that you completely own and no one can pull the license for later.
Ripping them is easy and allows you to play them anywhere, even without internet.
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.