Inventing "holidays" to get people to spend

US businesses have been inventing "holidays" as excuses to get people to spend money for more than a century.

About 10 of the many examples.

I decided long ago to disregard all the holidays that pressure people to give gifts.

I would not "celebrate" Record Store Day, but I do wish there were a good record store in Boston, with a big selection of classical and world records — I would visit it from time to time to look for interesting CDs to buy. The CD is the last media substrate that was invented without malfeatures to restrict people or impose nonfree technology, and I am happy to use it.

Meanwhile: Out, out, damned Spotify!

It has the same injustices as Amazon e-books(PDF), and even one of those injustices is too much.