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Mar. 5th, 2005 04:11 pmian: Kids today have it so easy. Their introductions to artists are MP3s of their entire back catalogs. In my day we had to scrounge, harangue and trade hissy-ass cassettes of Peel sessions, demos, b-sides. It took months to build up any kind of collection.
c.: yes. you hit the nail on the head and any other cliche you can think of. the door is opened, and the paradigm shift has occurred and all that.
access to music was an extremely special thing because you couldn't just hear amazing music on demand, you had to a.) find it -- which could be an extremely difficult chore itself, and b.) have the money to pay for it, and the inflated prices of recordings weren't helpful to a kid making minimum wage with a music fix. also, you couldn't just hear any old thing on the radio, if you were looking for something weird and different, you had to go out and buy it, because that was the only way you would ever hear it.
in a way it's sad i think...
the "value" of music is lowered in a sense.
and by "value" i don't mean money.
it was never about the money i spent on albums.
ian: Well, I do think that I certainly valued music more when I paid for it. I'm thinking specifically of all the Scorn stuff I hunted down that was essentially the exact same album 12x. But I bought, and listened, and enjoyed it much more than, say, Sigur Ros or something like that. I mean, in terms of valuing it. I very much take SR for granted because I've always had their entire catalog. Scorn was much harder to come by.
c.: yes. you hit the nail on the head and any other cliche you can think of. the door is opened, and the paradigm shift has occurred and all that.
access to music was an extremely special thing because you couldn't just hear amazing music on demand, you had to a.) find it -- which could be an extremely difficult chore itself, and b.) have the money to pay for it, and the inflated prices of recordings weren't helpful to a kid making minimum wage with a music fix. also, you couldn't just hear any old thing on the radio, if you were looking for something weird and different, you had to go out and buy it, because that was the only way you would ever hear it.
in a way it's sad i think...
the "value" of music is lowered in a sense.
and by "value" i don't mean money.
it was never about the money i spent on albums.
ian: Well, I do think that I certainly valued music more when I paid for it. I'm thinking specifically of all the Scorn stuff I hunted down that was essentially the exact same album 12x. But I bought, and listened, and enjoyed it much more than, say, Sigur Ros or something like that. I mean, in terms of valuing it. I very much take SR for granted because I've always had their entire catalog. Scorn was much harder to come by.
