I love music just as much now as I did as a 17 year old in 1988. However wide and kids aren't always conducive to being able to listen to it.

Music is everywhere though so I disagree that it means less. It's just more commercial nowadays. In the 80's the industry was happy if you bought a record, saw the tour and maybe bought a t shirt or a poster. Now they yet and find as many different ways as they can to screw money out of the paying fans.

A tour used to be done to support the album but it's now the other way round and so sometimes quality suffers be because ands put stuff out there simply to get out on tour, or in the case of some bands they don't even produce anything new.

Sometimes I'm annoyed with myself like Steve because I find myself listening to an album thinking 'which are the best 4-5 songs I can put onto an artists compilation' instead of enjoying the album as a whole - that's a symptom of modern music, iTunes etc so I am resolving to try and stop it!!



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 05/17/2012 11:37AM by jamesrock.