You know when we moved from albums to tapes and then CD's, some of the mystique of the object got lost in the shuffle - I think. But that is still there and I think more than ever these days it is becoming important. So with the album/CD you get Photos, artwork, lyrics and other little extras, even the look of the CD. I have lots of mp3s but I still buy CDs, some of which were from artists I discovered through (good old) Napster.
Napster for me was a very cool exercise in community. Many of the recordings I found there are not commercially available. I had great conversations with people in California, Germany, England and so on.... Napster and others allowed one to kind of sidestep the force-feeding of culture, something that the record companies are anxious to prevent, but that was exciting to me. That genie is out of the bottle now, and I don't believe it can be recapped. When it comes to mass culture, I find it hard to have sympathy for its purveyors. It is such a contrast to say when I went to a festival this summer, and I would have happily spent $1000 or more on CD's if I had it. Patrick ______________________________________________________________________ Signup for the Fusion Authority news alert and keep up with the latest news in ColdFusion and related topics. http://www.fusionauthority.com/signup.cfm Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/cf-community@houseoffusion.com/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
