James,
I still see a lacking in your theory, because I don't see it as thinking outside the box ("I want my CD/vinyl/whatever, not vapor"). With current form of Spotify you don't own anything and you can't download the songs, just stream them. Just like Myspace. Myspace was one major step forward this "listen music online legally for free" but I think Spotify was a step even further, because the artists get actually paid. It might not be the same amount they get as with iTunes, but the exposure is sure as hell a lot bigger, because people actually can listen the music for free. People are greedy by nature and especially with modern people torwards music; "I want to hear it, but I don't want to pay for it"
I have now used Spotify only for two days and I really have to say that I have found a lot of new music, to me that is. I stopped watching tv (because it passivated me too much) and listening to radio back in 1999 so I've spared myself from a lot of shitty music and repetitions that people get when exposed with radio. As you know, some songs are good, but when you hear it 20 times a day and +500 times a year, it really starts to piss you off. I made that mistake when I was in the military and listened to radio and I really started to hate Maroon5 for example and it reminded me why I hated radio. Maroon5 is basically a good band, but when it gets overplayed, it just wants you to smack the singers face in. Thats why I haven't installed my radioantenna in this new flat, but I bought the dvb-box so I could watch Big Brother from the TV.
But for example I heard Katy Perry for the first time, because it was in the frontpage of Spotify, so I just gave it a spin because it was free. And I really have to say that it was actually pretty nice, except the amount of autotuning was really disgusting. And Black Eyed Peas was another one that I really wanted to get to know and I liked it quite alot.
But the real goldmine was the radio-function. When I ranged it from 1960s and 1970s and chose musicstyle as "funk", I heard so much good music I thought I would never listen, and I would propably never even hear it from the radio. Also from the 00s I found "The Brand New Heavies", which I would actually consider buying a CD from, but I wouldn't buy it as a digital download. I have actually bought one(1) song from iTunes in my lifetime, and that quality was so shitty compared to the CD, that I wouldn't buy any more.
We are a like, we both like physical mediums, and we are not alone. Both digital and physical have their pros and cons, but the fact that you can't sell zeroes and ones is the biggest ones, so this is why my prediction is that the physical mediums won't go away in our lifetime unless the apocalypse happens or something.
...and to answer your question in your sig, it is
Exodus 20:17
