Transcending backward

To make something onerous on purpose is to grant it value.

To have the music streaming is easy, but the devotee transcends backward. They take pleasure in the obeisance to vinyl; investing in the cumbersome physicality and lavishing more attention until the “music” is a ritual.

The soft, easy has become a caring, hard.

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