[brickers]

I personally find the subscription model in some ways better in terms of cognitive load - choosing between concrete things can be paralysing enough that the two most likely outcomes are failing to make a choice or choosing something and regretting it. The sense of now owning something that I spent hard earned cash on can feel a burden if money gets tight.

Subscriptions, on the other hand, match how consuming media feels to me - I spent time doing something I liked and the cost enabled that.

Looking on it from a pure economics point of view, clearly it makes more sense to buy a CD and have access to it forever from that spend. But psychologically it feels very different