I don't know if it was just me growing up, but music changed dramatically right after Napster was forced to kill itself.
Perhaps someone else can support this: "Music" has never been the same since then. It seemed so much more available, so much more pervasive, more frequently invasive to my life; better than it is now.
Like I said, I've grown. But it seems that as the generation behind me moved online in a major way, the music didn't quite follow. Its not that you can't find great music these days, it's that - ironically - it is so much more difficult to do so.
I don't see this ever changing really. The blip that was the 20 century music industry is dead and gone, replaced with essentially a long tail market of grains of sand of that - occasionally if you look hard enough - has a couple of diamonds hidden away in obscurity.
"But I have a take on that - people only made money out of records for a very, very small time. When The Rolling Stones started out, we didn't make any money out of records because record companies wouldn't pay you! They didn't pay anyone!
Then, there was a small period from 1970 to 1997, where people did get paid, and they got paid very handsomely and everyone made money. But now that period has gone.
So if you look at the history of recorded music from 1900 to now, there was a 25 year period where artists did very well, but the rest of the time they didn't."
Perhaps someone else can support this: "Music" has never been the same since then. It seemed so much more available, so much more pervasive, more frequently invasive to my life; better than it is now.
Like I said, I've grown. But it seems that as the generation behind me moved online in a major way, the music didn't quite follow. Its not that you can't find great music these days, it's that - ironically - it is so much more difficult to do so.
I don't see this ever changing really. The blip that was the 20 century music industry is dead and gone, replaced with essentially a long tail market of grains of sand of that - occasionally if you look hard enough - has a couple of diamonds hidden away in obscurity.
But then again, maybe I'm just getting old.