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Re: (TV) Maybe OT: Is music less precious?
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From: "Keith Allison" <keith@marquee.demon.co.uk>
To: <tv@obbard.com>
Sent: Sunday, September 18, 2005 4:16 AM
Subject: Re: (TV) Maybe OT: Is music less precious?
In message <000001c5bc1d$b7e615b0$a64c7147@mine>, Michael Olcsvary
<olcsvary@verizon.net> writes
So, has this almost universal availability made music less important to
the populace at large, simply because, like Starbucks, it's everywhere?
Discuss.
Yes, definitely. To the great joy of record companies everywhere, it's
finally become a disposal commodity.
We're in an incredble time right now. We can listen to music whenever we
want, where ever we want, we have more music easily available to us than
ever before, there's a wide variety available to us right at our fingertips,
and people are complaining, "these kids don't appreciate music like we did
because they don't have to work for it. In my day, we had to physically go
to a record store."
The musical equivalent of McDonalds
crap - Fast Music. People are now wearing elevator music in their ears,
all day long. They don't care that it's compressed to 10% of its original
size because they either don't know or because (in the case of our eldest
teenager) it's more important to be able to fit 5,000 songs on to the
dreaded iPod so that his bus ride into school every day can be accompanied
by the same 10 songs that he listens to all the time.
Or maybe they don't care because they aren't techogeeks and the music is
more important that the specs. Saying "they don't care that it's compressed
to 10% of its original size" isn't much different from refusing to listen
to, for instance, Robert Johnson because of the sound quality.
He had a friend staying over the other week, who was wearing a Bob Marley
t-shirt. I put on an early Marley album and said, "Listen to this, guys".
Son immediately asked, "Can I put it on my iPod?" I said, "No, it's a
vinyl record, it's a collection of songs, it doesn't plug into your PC -
just listen to it!"
Maybe your son liked it and wanted a copy for himself? Or he had something
to do and wanted to listen to it later when he had more time?
He plays music all the time but I
could tell that it was too much trouble to go to just to hear it. He
wanted to POSSESS it immediately so that it could maybe pop up at some
point in the future on some random shuffle setting while he was waiting
for a bus somewhere.
I thought he listened to the same 10 songs all the time? It strikes me that
if he likes those 10 songs so much, they aren't disposable.
Making time to listen to it never entered his mind.
Cue a chorus of "Cat's In The Cradle."
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