Physical media is important. If you care about a song, artist, movie, whatever, you should be buying it in original format as much as possible. To this day I buy a CD, even if it is something brand new, because the artist will have a more hands on approach to their brand new artwork then 20 years from now when they are asked to sign off on a greatest hits album. Or when that original music is "adjusted" so it can be played on sat. radio or some other format.
I proved this out to my son in the last couple years. He has mostly digital music, but he has started to buy old CD's of his favorite artists. The albums I used to demonstrate this were both by the band "Live". I bought both the album "Throwing Copper" and "Lukini's Juice" when they released.
Side note: I don't listen to them as often anymore, I think you need a certain amount of pessimism about life to really get into 90's alternative rock.
Anyway, satelite radio in my '13 Charger. I made comments abou tthe songs from those albums sounding absolutely off and terrible, some wierd reverb was applied even to the vocals to go over satelite. Couple years later my son gets his 200, free trial of the same thing. We were headed to town and a song from Live came on. We listend to it and I commented about it. He mentioned he never heard it otherwise.
At home, I have a substantial, OLD stereo receiver and some even more substantial floor speakers. Non of this dolby/digital/surround sound/"pick your music type" filtered new stereo, just old school big power on a pair of massive, "shake the walls" speakers.
So I dug out my Live CD from the 1990's, and had him come listen. My CD player is also old, with it's own built in DAC.
Night and day. He made comments as such.
