Rarity as value: why meteorite tracks are priceless
There is no streaming feed in the boutique: every track is a one-off, like a meteorite that fell to you in particular.
Rarity is not an artificial scarcity. It is a property of a thing made by hand, without a conveyor belt and without repeats. The master could compose a hundred similar melodies, but he composes one — the very one.
Thus every track in the boutique is like a meteorite: it has no serial number and no clone. It travelled from intent to sound once, and that path will never repeat.
The value of such a thing is not in the price tag but in the uniqueness of the moment. You are not buying a file — you are buying a rare sound that will not be met anywhere else. And it stays yours forever.
That is why the license here is perpetual: a rare thing should not have an expiration date. It passes to you as a meteorite passes from the sky into a palm — weightlessly and forever.