Ten bucks a month adds up...

Back in the early 90s I bought Pearl Jam’s ‘Vs’ on CD. It was a great album that I’ve listened to regularly ever since. I know subscriptions for all of our cultural artefacts are the in thing in the mid 2020s, but have we stopped to think about what that is going to mean as we reach old age? Nothing to show for it On the surface, £10 or $10 per month seems harmless enough, especially when access to the vast majority of the world’s music is (theoretically) available to you. However, over the course of 40 years, that’s going to set you back nearly five grand in today’s money. Fine, that’s not so bad, until you realise the music stops as soon as the money stops. Let’s add in the ten bucks a month for the movies you no longer own. Yes, these are a little more complicated because when I first started buying CDs we were also buying movies on VHS. Things have moved on a bit since, but DVDs still work fine if you don’t care about the resolution. So, we’re up to twenty bucks a month in today’s…