Maybe this is me being too hand-wavey, but all of these problems about switching and etc could be easily solved...by embracing tradition and paying for digital or physical copies of music.
A complete list of all the music I bought in 2021:
PHYSICAL
Ahmed Abdul-Malik, Four Classic Albums 2CD
Apartment House, John Cage Number Pieces 4CD
Bad Brains, Bad Brains CD
Harry Bertoia, Complete Sonambient Collection 11CD
David Bowie, Stage (2017 remaster) 2CD
David Bowie, Welcome to the Blackout (Live London ’78) 2CD
Lester Bowie, All the Numbers 2CD
Weedie Braimah, The Hands of Time CD
Jaimie Branch, Fly Or Die Live 2CD
Anthony Braxton, Freedom Years 2CD
James Brown, Live at Home With His Bad Self CD
Cannibal Corpse, Red Before Black CD
Cannibal Corpse, A Skeletal Domain CD
Cannibal Corpse, Violence Unimagined CD
John Coltrane, Blue World CD
John Coltrane, A Love Supreme: Live in Seattle CD
Creative Construction Company, Vols. 1 & 2 CD
Bill Dixon, Envoi CD
Dr. John, Atco Albums Collection 7CD
Earthless, Rhythms From a Cosmic Sky CD
Earthless, Sonic Prayer CD
Earthless, From the Ages CD
Earthless, Night Parade of One Hundred Demons CD
Fire, Defeat CD
Floating Points, Pharoah Sanders & The London Symphony Orchestra, Promises CD
Merle Haggard: Down Every Road 1962-1994 4CD
PJ Harvey, Stories From the City, Stories From the Sea: Demos CD
PJ Harvey, Uh Huh Her: Demos CD
PJ Harvey, Is This Desire?: Demos CD
Hampton Hawes, Complete Albums Collection 1955-1961 4CD
Julius Hemphill, Big Band CD
Irreversible Entanglements, Open the Gates CD
Khanate, Khanate 2CD
Khanate, Things Viral 2CD
Khanate, Capture & Release 2CD
Khanate, Clean Hands Go Foul CD
Hubert Laws, Morning Star/Carnegie Hall/The Chicago Theme 2CD
Hubert Laws, In the Beginning/In Concert – Carnegie Hall 2CD
Damon Locks Black Monument Ensemble, Now CD
Damon Locks Black Monument Ensemble, Where Future Unfolds CD
Loop, Heavens End 2CD
Loop, Fade Out 2CD
Loop, A Gilded Eternity 2CD
Michael Mantler, The Jazz Composers Orchestra CD
Mastodon, Hushed & Grim 2CD
Rob Mazurek Exploding Star Orchestra, Dimensional Stardust CD
Charles Mingus, Mingus at Carnegie Hall: Deluxe Edition 2CD
Roscoe Mitchell, Congliptious CD
Roscoe Mitchell, Old/Quartet Sessions 2CD
Roscoe Mitchell, Before There Was Sound CD
Hedvig Mollestad Trio, Ding Dong. You’re Dead. CD
Lee Morgan, The Complete Live at the Lighthouse 8CD
Mudhoney, Every Good Boy Deserves Fudge 30th Anniversary Deluxe Edition 2CD
Ohio Players, Fire/Skin Tight 2CD
Ohio Players, Honey/Contradiction 2CD
Perturbator, Lustful Sacraments CD
Radiohead, Kid A Mnesia 3CD
Roots Magic, Hoodoo Blues CD
Roots Magic, Last Kind Words CD
Roots Magic, Take Root Among the Stars CD
Seefeel, Rupt + Flex 1994-1996 4CD
The Skatalites, Best of the Skatalites 2CD
Sons of Kemet, Black to the Future CD
Steppenwolf, Magic Carpet Ride: The ABC/Dunhill Years 1967-1971 8CD
Sunn O))), Metta, Benevolence CD
Booker T. & the MGs, Stax Singles Vol. 1 CD
Booker T. & the MGs, Stax Singles Vol. 2 CD
Cecil Taylor, Air Above Mountains CD
Cecil Taylor, Fly!Fly!Fly!Fly!Fly! CD
Cecil Taylor, Music From Two Continents CD
Cecil Taylor Quintet, Lifting the Bandstand CD
Cecil Taylor Ensemble, Göttingen 2CD
Cecil Taylor/Bill Dixon/Tony Oxley, Cecil Taylor/Bill Dixon/Tony Oxley CD
Anna Thorvaldsdottir, Enigma CD
Cedar Walton, Eastern Rebellion 1-4 4CD
DIGITAL
Abominable Putridity, Parasitic Metamorphosis Manifestation
Alaridos, Horca
ASC, An Increase in Entropy
Asphyxiate, Altar of Decomposed
Automaton, Dub Terror Exhaust
Automaton, Jihad
Albert Ayler Quintet, Berlin, Paris, Lörrach & Stockholm Revisited
BCUC, Our Truth
BCUC, Emakhosini
BCUC, The Healing
Beastmaker, Body and Soul
Biomorphic Engulfment, Incubation in the Parallel Dimension
Black Flower, Ghost Radio
BLK OPS, The Heroic Dose
Peter Brötzmann, Never Too Late But Always Too Early
Peter Brötzmann/Maleem Mahmoud Gania/Hamid Drake, The Wels Concert
Big Bad Brötzmann Trio, Biturbo!, Cap’n
Big Bad Brötzmann Trio/John Edwards & John Eckhardt, Hot Ass/Beauty Legs
Big Bad Brötzmann Quintet, Bambule!
Big Bad Brötzmann Quintet, Karacho!
The Bug, Fire
Cadaveric Fumes, Dimensions Obscure
Can, Live In Brighton 1975
Carbon Based Lifeforms, Stochastic
Ian Carr Double Quintet, Solar Session
George Coleman, Amsterdam After Dark
Isaiah Collier & The Chosen Few, Cosmic Transitions
Diskord, Degenerations
Dispersed, Where Silence Reigns
Distant, Dusk of Anguish
Distant, Aeons of Oblivion
D-Town Brass, Ur
D-Town Brass, Demiurge
Ekulu, Unscrew My Head
Ena, Divided: Mind
Ena, Divided: Body
Ena, Divided
Ena, Divided 9 & 10
Ena, Binaural
Ena, Binaural (Part 2)
Flesh Hoarder, Relic of Putrescent Filth
Fruko y sus Tesos, Tesura
Fruko y sus Tesos, A la Memoria del Muerto
G36, Floor Weapons Vol. 1
Galvanizer, Prying Sight of Imperception
Galvanizer, Sanguine Vigil
The Gathering, Leimert Park
Lafayette Gilchrist, Towards the Shining Path
Lafayette Gilchrist, New Urban World Blues
Lafayette Gilchrist, The GoGo Suite: Live at the Windup Space
Lafayette Gilchrist, Deep Dancing Suite
Green River, Come On Down
Green River, Dry as a Bone: Deluxe Edition
Green River, Rehab Doll: Deluxe Edition
Muriel Grossmann, Union
Innov Gnawa, Innov Gnawa
Innov Gnawa, Lila
Innov Gnawa, Aicha
Intestinal Pestilence, Rotten Cadaver Forsaken
Nicole Johänntgen, Henry III
Kurushimi, Return 2: The Grove
Bill Laswell, Sacred System Dub Chamber 1 – Book of Entrance
Bill Laswell, Sacred System Dub Chamber 2 – Black Channel
Bill Laswell, Sacred System Dub Chamber 3 – The Exegesis
Bill Laswell, Sacred System Dub Chamber 4 – Version 2 Version
Bill Laswell, Sacred System Dub Chamber 5 – Book of Exit
Madam Data, The Gospel of the Devourer
Madam Data, For Agnes Martin – Six Architectures in Light and Water
Kevin Richard Martin, Red Light
Kevin Richard Martin, White Light
Kevin Richard Martin, Melting Point
Koichi Matsukaze Trio Featuring Ryojiro Furusawa, At the Room 427
Charles McPherson, Charles McPherson
Charles McPherson, Siku Ya Bibi
Meshum, Enigmatic Existential Essence
Metharoma, Pipe Dreams (Through the Alley)
Kohsuke Mine, First
Jason Moran, The Sound Will Tell You
Jason Moran/Milford Graves, Graves/Moran Live at Big Ears
Nazamba, Vex
Other Dimensions in Music, Other Dimensions in Music
Other Dimensions in Music, Live at the Sunset
Other Dimensions in Music, Now!
Other Dimensions in Music, Time is of the Essence is Beyond Time
Other Dimensions in Music, Kaiso Stories
William Parker/In Order To Survive, The Peach Orchard
John Patton, Soul Connection
Pyrexia, Gravitas Maximus
Relapso, Fierce
Relapso, Hinin
Replicant, Malignant Reality
Replicant, Worthless Desires
Replicant, Negative Life
Replicant, Hypochondria of the Machine
Replicant, Welcome to New Jersey
Replicant, Unbeing
Michi Sarmiento, Aqui Los Bravos! The Best Of Michi Sarmiento y su Combo Bravo 1966-67
Scorn, The Only Place
Ayanda Sikade, Movements
Nala Sinephro, Live at Real World Studios
Slant, 1
Slant, Vain Attempt EP
Nate Smith, Kinfolk: Postcards From Everywhere
Spirits Rejoice, African Spaces
Luke Stewart & Jarvis Earnshaw Quartet, Luke Stewart & Jarvis Earnshaw Quartet
Sunn O))), НЕЖИТЬ: живьём в России
Tong Tong, Tong Tong Greatest Hits
Trouble, The Skull
Trouble, Psalm 9
Trouble, Trouble
Trouble, Manic Frustration
Herbie Tsoaeli, At This Point in Time: Voices in Volumes
Lenny White, Big City
Lenny White, Venusian Summer
Wildflower, Better Times
Various Artists, Axaminer Sampler Vol. 5
Various Artists, Axaminer Sampler Vol. 6
Various Artists, Axaminer Sampler Vol. 7
Various Artists, Axaminer Sampler Vol. 8
Various Artists, Bangs & Works Vol.1 (A Chicago Footwork Compilation)
Various Artists, Bangs & Works Vol.1 (The Best of Chicago Footwork)
Various Artists, Cartagena! Curro Fuentes & The Big Band Cumbia and Descarga Sound Of Colombia 1962-72
Various Artists, Colombia! the Golden Age of Discos Fuentes. the Powerhouse of Colombian Music 1960-76
Various Artists, Perihelion 2209
Various Artists, Total 21
Various Artists, Vision One: Vision Festival 1997 Compiled
― but also fuck you (unperson), Monday, 7 February 2022 14:57 (two years ago) link