Those who believe that the tactile experience of music ownership still counts for something are, I fear, a dying breed.
File sharing and streaming sites mean that new albums or individual tracks are merely files on computer desktops rather than items on shelves.
This is why Warp Records‘ elaborate marketing campaign behind Tomorrow’s Harvest , the first album by the Scottish duo Boards Of Canada in 8 years, seems romantic yet anachronistic. Continue reading
Back in the day, I was never convinced by the ‘home taping is killing music’ argument any more than I would subscribe to the view that home cooking is killing restaurants.
On the contrary, the fact that I taped countless albums borrowed from friends or my local library satisfied my ravenous musical appetite and introduced me to countless artists I would never otherwise have heard of. I certainly didn’t buy any less music as a result
I recognise that the MP3 revolution is a different kettle of fish and offers a flood of free temptations for music obsessives but,even so, l don’t think that file sharing is killing music either.
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As fellow addicts will know there is no limit to how many new sounds you can consume and there’s never a point where you say ‘I have enough music to listen to and don’t need more’.
The more you hear, the more you want to hear – it’s an itch that never goes away.
A man who understands this craving is the founder of UbuWeb, Kenneth Goldsmith who presents an intelligent perspective on this issue in an article in this month’s Wire magazine. Continue reading
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