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I'm a collector (not gonna lie; I'm also a bit of a spoiled brat). I want to own my music. Without getting into the whole larger "rights" thing, you know what I mean; I want to be able to pay my money and say, "This is mine" (or download it free and legal and same thing). Preferably, I want a physical product. More than one person has noted how, when I buy a vinyl LP, I'll touch it up and down and all over for a good 15 minutes before I pop the plastic. I'm just naturally a tactile person and it's my weird way of saying, "You're mine, now, all mine." So I don't get "streams". What the "F" is that? What good is a song I can't buy or own? What good is it to me and what good is it to you? I won't feature "streams" of Christmas music, here. All that does is encourage illegal activity, in my opinion. I get that, for the artist, there a publicity factor. But, you know, especially with video streams, if you paid all that money to record the song and make a video, what's the extra cost of making the song available for sale? Even if you don't sell ANY. I mean, how many are you selling with a "stream"? I do get that sometimes, with a cover or parody, yours aren't the only rights involved. I get that. But it still frustrates me to no end.
I won't feature Christmas streams. But I do feature Hanukkah streams (because there's so much less Hanukkah music to begin with). The following are songs I want to "own" but, for one reason or another, can't.
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Ariella Zeitlin, by the way, was born in Baltimore. She moved to Israel at the age of 17. And she does have a Hanukkah single that you or I can buy and own. From 2016, here's "Incandescence". It's available on iTunes.
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