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But then wasn't RnR really defined by the 45 (which originally had no sleeve art at all) before sort of getting hijacked by the album in the mid 60s? In that sense, the idea of people downloading single songs by artists seems far more 'Rock n Roll' than investing in a whole bunch of songs collected together as an album. What's more, people played those old 45s on the most primitive record players, through tiny speakers, or listened to them on handheld transister radios. I've listened to 45s on my mum's old Dansette and while it was a beautiful object, I defy anyone to tell me it produced a better sound than an MP3 player.
Also,with regards an earlier point you made about a lack of music being properly worked out, I've been listening to a lot of old Sun recordings recently. Those things are full of little mistakes and were usually recorded within a few hours, often in a single take. So again, the very things that the digital 'revolution' seems to promote are, if anything, more like a return to the principals of rock n roll than any kind of departure from them.
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