Keep in mind that most commercial real estate leases span several years and can’t just reduce their footprint overnight.

Lol, no it’s not.

It’s a nice way of showing the people who make the things you like support.

I basically do the same. I buy a majority of albums as records from my favorite bands or just bands I want to support.

Because, at the end of the day, we’re basically just downloading commodity entertainment. There’s nothing directly substantive about that and that’s fine. Not everything we do needs to become a direct part of our identity.

Yes, why?

I’ve been pirating since I was a child. That being said, I don’t think it’s particularly healthy to pin ‘media pirating’ as a personality trait.

I prefer self-hosting my media. I’m mostly done with streaming services of any kind.

While I appreciate what he contributed and I’m sorry his life was cut off so soon, I think hero worship is incredibly weird.