No one can take physical media from you. A vinyl record doesn't come with a forced monthly subscription and won't ask you for more money after three months.
Once you buy it, it is yours forever (or until you leave it in a hot car and it returns to wax form.)
Here is a list of the albums my daughter and I have collected over the past year
COLLECTION STATS:
(** indicates an original release year pressing)
Casiopea - Casiopea
1979
The Mars Volta - Frances The Mute
2005
Protest The Hero - Within
2026
Sleep - Dopesmoker/Jerusalem
2003
Agoraphobic Nosebleed - Altered States of America/ANbRx II: Delta 9
2003
The Dillinger Escape Plan - Calculating Infinity
1999
Metro Boomin - Across The Spider-Verse OST
2023
Michael Jackson - Thriller
1982
.Moneen. - The Red Tree (2012 LIMITED RUN: #363/500)
2006
Daft Punk - Random Access Memories
2012
Streetlight Manifesto - Everything Goes Numb
2003
Streetlight Manifesto - Somewhere In The Between
2007
Streetlight Manifesto - The Hands That Thieve
2013
KMFDM - Kunst (Sealed)
2013
DEVO - Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo! **
1978
Daft Punk - Random Access Memories (Drumless)
2021
Mr Bungle - Self Titled
1991
Primus - Sailing the Seas of Cheese
1991
King Crimson - Discipline **
1981
Vangelis - Blade Runner Soundtrack
1982
The Flatliners - Cavalcade
2010
Gorillaz - Demon Days
2005
Protest The Hero - Palimpsest
2020
NOFX - The Decline
1999
NOFX - White Trash, Two Heebs and a Bean
1992
Radiohead - OK Computer
1997
Rancid - ...And Out Come The Wolves **
1995
Weezer - Blue Album
1994
Weezer - Pinkerton
1996
Boston - Boston **
1976
Descendents - Milo Goes To College
1982
Supertramp - Crime Of The Century **
1974
Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin IV **
1971
Elton John - Here And There
1976
Bruce Springsteen - Born To Run **
1975
Emerson, Lake & Palmer - Trilogy **
1972
Iron Maiden - Powerslave
1984
Refused - The Shape of Punk to Come
1998
Tyler, The Creator - Chromakopia
2024