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Originally Posted by terminal pharmacy
I don't know how the younger generations feel but I don't wan't my whole life reduced to 1s and 0s. The digital realm has helped with certain aspects of my life but I'm not interested in having my whole music collection in a low quality format and jpg's of cover art. I like the smell of my favourite indy record store and I like talking to my mates that work there and have the same passion for music I do, I also like getting discount because I spend alot of money there...
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You talk about music as something to possess. Take film for example. People enjoyed them long before they could physically own them. The physical ownership of a person's favourite film or piece of music is a relatively recent phenomenon and as such is hardly a prerequisite to their being enjoyed. Who's to say that digital technology won't eventually mean that we no-longer own hard copies of the music or films we enjoy. Will a Beatles' song or a Hitchcock film diminish in quality simply because you or I don't have it on our shelves, but can instead download it at any time? I agree that it will change our
relationship to those things, but that relationship was never carved in stone in the first place.
I agree about the issue of quality in terms of mp3s, etc. Although I tend to think that this is a teething issue not unusual in any new technology and that eventually digital technology (or whatever replaces it) will be at least as good as anything that vinyl was able to provide.
The argument I'm making will, I admit, put record shops such as the one you describe largely out of business, but then the advent of recorded music wasn't exactly great for orchestras who made a living playing to the public. And video has hardly benefited the local cinema.
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Originally Posted by terminal pharmacy
"The sheer will of a certain generation of consumers will inevitably see the album maintain its industry dominance long after it's actual viability has passed"...
^if it maintains it's industry dominance long after it's viability has passed does this not mean it is viable.... hummm bit of a paradox there.
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You're right. I probably should've said practical rather than viable.