I haven\u2019t bought a CD in years, except for two. One of them was Court and Spark, by Joni Mitchell. And the other one was Blue, by Joni Mitchell. They\u2019re both essential to me, and when she pulled her music from Spotify in 2022, I bit the bullet and bought the CDs so I could get my fix in the car. But the occasion got me questioning why I don\u2019t buy CDs regularly anymore. I\u2019ve been thinking a lot about the impermanence of Spotify\u2014among its other myriad pitfalls, like its failure to pay artists what they\u2019re worth, or its shitty user interface. Even if (when) I choose to overlook these flaws and keep Spotify as my primary music repository, there\u2019s always the threat of all my precious playlists disappearing entirely if something ever happened to the company. My lifeblood, heart of my heart, the music that keeps me going on my darkest days\u2014it\u2019s all at the mercy of some floundering corporation\u2019s servers. I don\u2019t like that. It feels profane.