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The Watcher · 06.04.2011, 05:53 AM

I think hbj makes some excellent points above - it's not exclusively an issue of theft, the concept of an album in itself is still really important as an idea for listening that people are losing. Ask my drummer, he'll rant until the cows come home over the notion that many bands feel compelled to fill 80 minutes of a CD these days, and are using it poorly. It's only partly in regards to an LP (you gotta flip it to absorb it) which is not automatically true but the idea of going out to a record store, deciding which record you can buy, going home and listening to it, reading the liner notes (in a lot of cases reading the thank you list for your next band to check out), these are really important things that are being replaced with a playlist and a shuffle button. It takes any element of excitement to it away, and shit, even an element of danger. Instead of having to walk into some scuzzy punk store looking for a record at 14 you're now finding a torrent and while it's downloading reading the wikipedia article on Black Flag, and just like everyone else on the Internet youre automatically an expert....... This has nothing to do with royalties, and everything to do with people being fucking falses......... I think I mentioned this in another thread but I read an interview with Prurient a while back where he said that bs was really proud to appreciate music become the Internet became commonplace and in fact I 100% agree, memories for Neville buying (ironically) Ride The Lighting on tape while mom "tsk'd" behind me about how he didn't want me listening to records where everything was about death, or getting my first issue of MRR and just being overwhelmed by how much I didn't know about everything, or waiting for the mail to arrive and hoping that the 7" I ordered arrived (and wasn't a dud) are way more important than finding that awesome 4 gb torrent of every song by every bad you just heard about....... Well yeah it's not really relevant anymore but it's so crucial to what makes music so special........ It actually kind of sucks that this is something that we're losing with technology.........

06.04.2011, 05:53 AM	#54
The Watcher children of satan Join Date: Apr 2009 Posts: 365	I think hbj makes some excellent points above - it's not exclusively an issue of theft, the concept of an album in itself is still really important as an idea for listening that people are losing. Ask my drummer, he'll rant until the cows come home over the notion that many bands feel compelled to fill 80 minutes of a CD these days, and are using it poorly. It's only partly in regards to an LP (you gotta flip it to absorb it) which is not automatically true but the idea of going out to a record store, deciding which record you can buy, going home and listening to it, reading the liner notes (in a lot of cases reading the thank you list for your next band to check out), these are really important things that are being replaced with a playlist and a shuffle button. It takes any element of excitement to it away, and shit, even an element of danger. Instead of having to walk into some scuzzy punk store looking for a record at 14 you're now finding a torrent and while it's downloading reading the wikipedia article on Black Flag, and just like everyone else on the Internet youre automatically an expert....... This has nothing to do with royalties, and everything to do with people being fucking falses......... I think I mentioned this in another thread but I read an interview with Prurient a while back where he said that bs was really proud to appreciate music become the Internet became commonplace and in fact I 100% agree, memories for Neville buying (ironically) Ride The Lighting on tape while mom "tsk'd" behind me about how he didn't want me listening to records where everything was about death, or getting my first issue of MRR and just being overwhelmed by how much I didn't know about everything, or waiting for the mail to arrive and hoping that the 7" I ordered arrived (and wasn't a dud) are way more important than finding that awesome 4 gb torrent of every song by every bad you just heard about....... Well yeah it's not really relevant anymore but it's so crucial to what makes music so special........ It actually kind of sucks that this is something that we're losing with technology.........
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