As bad as the Democrats fundraising tactics are, the Republicans were even worse. At one point during the 2020 election my phone was buzzing for 10 minutes straight with some 70% being Republican fundraising messages. Democrats maxed out at 20 messages in one day,but then I do live in a state that’s not going blue anytime soon.

I usually get mine from either Bandcamp or Amazon. No DRM from either when downloading, though buying music from Amazon gets difficult if you have an Amazon music subscription.

That’s a site I haven’t heard of in a while.

Which have their own issues. Namely, to my knowledge, upfront cost and lack of flexibility. I’m sure there are others.

Here in the US, you are unlikely to find enough people willing to think far enough ahead for that to happen. Too many emotions guiding actions.

As a truck driver, I would like to ask, how would you acquire all the “stuff” you have bought over the years? I am reasonably sure most of it was not produced locally to you. And the raw materials almost certainly aren’t locally sourced. Trucking and logistics generally has its issues, and you only have glimpsed a fraction of them, but it is absolutely necessary for modern society. Unless you’re proposing we kill off 2/3rds of humanity and go back to hunter-gatherer. Not a fan of that idea.