My main use for Amazon is to find products. Once I've found what I want, I look up the seller directly and see if I can get them some other way - usually simply getting it direct from them. It is usually about the same price but as they are not giving a chunk of it to Amazon they are making more money. Yes, I rarely get free shipping or whatever, but it helps support what it often a small business. I encourage all of you to do the same.
Ah, breaker one-nine, this here's the Rubber Duck
You gotta copy on me, Pig Pen, c'mon?
Ah, yeah, 10-4, Pig Pen, fer sure, fer sure
By golly, it's clean clear to Flag Town, c'mon
Yeah, that's a big 10-4 there, Pig Pen
Yeah, we definitely got the front door, good buddy
Mercy sake's alive, looks like we got us a convoy
Lately I've been leaving my Amazon music library on shuffle via Sonos. Without subscribing to their music streaming service, you can stream any music you have purchased from Amazon, LPs, CDs, or MP3s (as long as they have ripped it). I bought a lot of music CDs (and even mp3s,) from Amazon in the pre-bandcamp days, (back when they were just a convenient place to get books and music, before we understood their plans for world domination). So, it's like a time machine of what I was listening to 8 years ago. Also, I like to think Amazon has to pay the artists for the plays (even tho I'm not paying them).