Why this KaZaA Millennial still uses iTunes

In Paste Magazine’s “Witnessing pop music’s iTunes renaissance”, Cassidy Sollazzo talks about stumbling upon the extant iTunes Store within Apple Music, and how strange it is that this “relic of a bygone digital download era still exists in a little hidden pocket of a streaming giant.” Let me ask you this: can there be a renaissance of something if it never died? As a KaZaA Millennial, I’ve been maintaining my digital music collection for basically as long as that was possible to do. Burning my CDs, downloading music files, organizing them in iTunes and now Apple Music (the app, not the streaming service), and syncing them with my iPod and now iPhone has been my routine for literal decades now. This post’s headline isn’t quite accurate since the iTunes we knew doesn’t really exist anymore (as the article explains). But its spirit and purpose live on in Apple Music, which serves as a storehouse for digital music files that exist independently from streaming services. The primacy of…

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