Listen, maybe it's just me but this whole analog nostalgia feels super selective. I mean, for every one magical flea market tape there were dozens that were just someone's awful karaoke attempts or hours of dead air. Idk, I'd rather have an algorithm learn my actual tastes than gamble five bucks on a mystery CD-R of someone else's garbage mixtape. That whole "warm analog sound" people romanticize was often just bad recordings with actual physical degradation, not some curated aesthetic. Modern platforms eliminate that frustrating hunt through literal trash to maybe find one decent thing, which honestly sounds exhausting, not magical.