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The only worrying downside with all the downloading madness is that you get too many people carefully 'choosing' what they think their taste 'is meant to be', rather than what 'it actually is'. This means that you have a lot of listeners with 'cool' taste, 'cool' record collections, but ultimately a sterile approach to enjoying music, and not even a personality that has grown out of it to speak of. Why? Because they are constantly influenced by what they perceive as cool on the internet and certain medias by other listeners who have been victims of the same fate.
I agree with hat and beard, to some extent, in that the huge availability of music means that there simply isn't enough time for a person to listen to all the things that we might think that would be beneficial for us to listen to, but really, is it necessary for somebody to know 1000 bands and rarely get to absorb their music because of lack of time or funds?
The whole thing with the internet is that it ultimately changed some habits in the way music is purchased, distributed etc, but if yourself is the one who poses all these questions about the way your listening habits have changed, perhaps it's time to either go and play freesbee with your puppy or just relax around what your taste is and, perhaps, just stop listening to music in general when you simply are not feeling like it. The internet doesn't have anything to do with any of that.
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