Buying a song or album without knowing if you'll like it is a big risk, and it's tough to find music listening to radio especially since an algorithm can give you way better, more niche/personalized suggestions without ads. And streaming allows you to have a huge library of all the unique songs you've found without having to pay 1000s of dollars, hours of time finding and buying all the albums you want, and then finding a way to store them all
Reposting this comment cause i though my comment got posted twice but i think it was just a glitch on my lemmy client
Very true, i guess for me a lot of my favorite songs i diin't even like that much the first time i heard them. There's a big difference for me between listening to a song to see if i'd buy it and just listening to a song while chilling or driving or working or whatever. I wish i was different though, i'd much rather be able to comfortably use bandcamp or resonate or something than spotify