TW Walsh On the Devaluation of Music

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The Devaluation of Music

Here’s something I’ve been thinking a lot about the last couple days. I’m 31, so I grew up in the cassette age. Most of the music I got really excited about in adolescence was experienced on my Sony Walkman. The headphones were glued to my head when I was on the schoolbus or on this. All the albums that expressed my teenage angst came directly from little ferromagnetic particles on thin tape. Occasionally I would copy or “dub” an album from a friend, but it was time consuming(it was done in real time unless you had an expensive and coveted “high-speed” dubbing tape deck) and the copies never sounded as good as the original. Plus, you didn’t get the liner notes. I don’t know, it never occured to me that if I wanted an album that I should do anything besides taking my hard-earned-grocery-bagging money down to Caldor to buy that copy of Uplift Mofo Party Plan or Ride the Lightning. An album/cassette was a thing that I could hold in my hands, like a pair of sneakers or a comic book. But it was soooooo much more valuable. I would pay almost any amount of money to be able to listen to my favorite records. They are priceless to me. But nowadays, albums are priceless in a different way - they are free.

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TW Wash wonders with all this free music, will creative people of merit will have a chance in this new marketplace... Any thoughts out there?

[Excrement_Cranium]

Sure. Why not. Because, you know... broke indie bands are something completely new.

Indie bands will cease to travel because of low CD sales and rising gas prices.

Mmmmhmmmm... because indie artists weren't already living in their cars.