8/28/2025 - 11:56pm

HEY AGAIN!!! IM BACK!!! in a mere 48 hours.. who would have guessed.

I realized I can see how many views my website has.. 88. disgusting. so sad you all had to see it. how embarassing. it's like having company without cleaning your room.
But look!! dedicated blog page!!! MARGINS??? we're moving up in the world. not much longer and I will have the coolest website out of anyone I know (i'm looking at you hayden.. watch out..)

Anyway, as of yesterday, I decided I wanted to move away from spotify. I was already pretty upset about how much they paid artists, and as a company they keep steering further into AI, but I saw a very informative youtube video about how apparently the ceo is funneling that money directly into the military industrial complex??? yeah, not cool. plus i just got a new debit card, so instead of changing my billing info i'm just not going to continue with premium. I have a big ol pile of CDs that I've been slowly grinding through my computer and slapping the files on my phone. Right now I'm using Oto Music to organize it, but I'm open to trying other ones later (lmk if you have other recommendations !! can you message through neocities?? if so give me a message lol). I bought a few other albums on bandcamp for a few bucks, and going forward, I'm just going to start spending what was previously my premium subscription on more albums. Plus, I usually only listen to a couple albums on loop anyway. I also already had the Deltarune soundtrack on my steam, and that's 90% of my spotify over the past 3 months lol.

Not sure if anyone else can relate to this, but listening to media I own physically is such a different experience. It's still just hitting a button on my phone, but the process of ripping the CD and transferring the files over and THEN hitting the button just feels, better somehow?? maybe its just the relieved guilt of knowing I actually the paid the artist instead of throwing a .0001 cent royalty. In addition, it's much easier finding something to listen to. It's not longer the entire internet at my disposal, I just choose which of my already favorite albums I like. and when those get old, I'll just peruse bandcamp or take a reccomendation from a pal. We'll see how much I like it later on. Worst case, I still have youtube for trying out new stuff.

That's all I've really got on my mind right now. Until next time shawties.

farewell,

Koen