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Originally Posted by demonrail666
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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(1) When your hard-drive crashes, you will wish you bought records. Records are gonna endure. I doubt that mp3s will. Like, where the hell are my Severed Heads mp2s??? I thought I'd have had them forever.
(2) Those great Sun records that are just raw and honest and spontaneous and human are nonetheless great despite the lack of any studio sorcery. Sorcery is not required to make a good record. It is not necessary even if you are "lo-fi"--whether by choice or by necessity--to produce records in such a way that they are creatively produced or larger-than-life. That certain excellent records on Sun were raw and such does nothing to impeach my argument that today's musicians should not use "lo-fi" as a crutch or excuse for being lazy, but rather strive to make "lo-fi" sound awesome....just as those records on Sun are awesome. Note that none of those records suffer from any of the problems I've identified with lazy DIY recordists.
Sorry, I am not always capable of the specficity you guys require for internet forum posts that are formulated as I type while waiting for my reports to grep at the office....