> does NOT remotely justify the additional cost...

The recommendation system is amazing and totally worth an additional cost to me.

> You paid $10-20 one time and the music was durably yours forever.

I'm old enough to have re purchased my music on three platforms: vinyl, CD, mp3. If you buy physical media you have the added cost of needing space for the stuff and needing to move it around with you. As for Mp3, they are the great but they made sharing so easy stealing music became a real problem.