almost always try to listen at least 3 times

more than that if im enjoying it

If it's digital, just keep it in my library. Why not? It's in the cloud, not taking up local storage.

And of course, only buying physical formats of albums I intend on listening to again.

for sure. i think a problem incentived by platforms like rym/lastfm is that it encourages some people to listen to a ton of albums so that they can log it or say that they've listened to it in order to feel "cultured". which is technically true but yea your opinion is kinda worthless if you've just skimmed thru it one time. its better to listen to like 30 albums a year that you're actually digesting instead of listening to 100 albums that you're not taking in fully. need to remind myself to go at a sustainable pace, theres a lot of albums out there but you have a whole lifetime of listening and dont have to jam pack everything in at once

Think you have a digital library confused with a streaming subscription

Sure. My apple music library.

Apples library.

Always give it a second listen, but in a different state of mind

1 listen at home, 1 listen while taking a walk

ok to better answer the question,
no I'm not trashing my physical albums

digital albums on my itunes library
stay active as long as i have a subscription.

So Apple Music library? If you have an iTunes library it really is yours forever no subscription needed.

Ok let's talk about my physical libray instead
mine forever

better? lol