Comment by JustExAWS

No one has sold digital music with DRM since around 2009 - not even Apple.

The story behind that is the music industry wanted Apple to license its DRM and it refused. Instead Steve Jobs said in his public “Thoughts on Music” letter that was posted on Apple’s website at the time that the music industry should license its music to Apple and everyone else DRM free and Apple would gladly sell music DRM free. Only one organization (EMI) and indie artists took him up on that in 2007. By 2009, everyone did after contract wrangling.

https://shellypalmer.com/2007/02/thoughts-on-music-by-steve-...

> Maybe it is a bias by music genre. I went to things played in a concert hall: old classical music, new classical music, Jazz, film music, etc., to newly composed music on modern medieval-like instruments and to a-capella concerts of music from various centuries from various choirs, some of which I used to or still participate. All of them sell CDs and Spotify would be considered unprofessional and cheap

And you are far from the mainstream. I went to a Jazz concert this year. He also didn’t sell music and had a QR code where you could find his music online. He sold merch and the chance to take pictures with him. Funny enough, we were in London earlier this year and saw Lionel Ritchie at the O2. He was also selling merch and the chance to take pictures with him and definitely not CDs.