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Convenience, not needing a dedicated MP3 player, music discovery via algorithms, being able to play stuff you haven't already downloaded (ex: playing music at a gathering with friends is a lot more fun when anyone can just request basically any song imaginable and load it within seconds). These are my personal "excuses" anyway.
I don't and have never paid for Spotify with the idea I was supporting artists in doing so, but I still find it kinda funny that artists not getting paid well is your justification for not paying at all. Like I said I'm under no illusion that any artist I listen to is getting a significant payout from my streaming, and I'm very pro-piracy as well, but I do support artists I like through direct album/ticket/merch sales, or even via Patreon. Some of these artists I probably never would have discovered if it weren't for my addiction to the Discover Weekly playlist Spotify spits out for me. I wish more people would do this though, especially for smaller acts.
Also just an aside, but I feel like toning down the snark might get your point across better.
I mean my thing is like how much music do you need to have "on you" at all times? I've got ~130 mp3s on my phone and that's just under half a gig. So you can have an easy 250 songs (~16 hours worth) for just a gigabyte of local storage. It's pretty easy to download junk and if you really like an artist guess what, you already have all your music locally so when you get a tasty
wavnot a single thing has to change about how you listen to music.250 songs will get stale pretty damned quickly. Back in the day I had a 4GB iPod Nano and iPod adapter in my car and would very quickly start hearing the same songs over and over. You could always swap out to a new playlist but where are you going to find new content/recommendations without putting in a ton of work?