If I do not end up with an offline-playable artifact in a standard format with no DRM, it needs to be priced as one-off consumption, like a movie ticket. Because duration aside, that's what it is.

"Cloud" service economics cannot work for "sales" of content, that only works for subscription models. The vendor has ongoing costs related to a one-time sale; of course they're going to screw you out of it no matter what lies they tell you.

I mostly buy physical media, although BandCamp got a fair amount of my money before it was eviscerated. The first sale doctrine still exists, as much as rentiers hate it.