re-phaelam-ed wrote:This conversation goes the same way every time. I was happier discovering, rather than getting prompted where to go. I enjoyed having to go to the record store Tuesday midnight to get a record that was coming out, then getting home and fully taking it in.
The internet is laziness incarnate.
Dude, it's not like the Internet is collectively forbidding you from doing the things you like. Yes, things may be changing a little bit, but then again, they have always changed. When phonograph records were first introducing, people were also complaining that they "devalue" music, and that in order to "properly" enjoy music, you actually have to go to the concerts, and that records are making people lazy. The thing is, people like to make comparisons between today and an idealised, artificially perfect, non-existent past. I mean, isn't that the whole thing BoC explores with their music?
But that's okay. I mean, your experiences are all your, and you're free to say what you like and what you don't about the recent changes in music. But don't go around sticking labels on people and criticising them for not following your methods and your tastes. I also say my musical experience gets constantly better thanks to the digital technology and the Internet, and I will not allow you to tag me as a "cop-out" just because you think so. The Internet gives me a wealth of diversity that I would never, ever, ever even dream of accessing without it. And if I miss the physical hunt for records and the human contact, you know what I will do? I will go out and do it. But don't try to vilify the actions of people like me, as if we need to burn our hard drives to, as Daft Punk would say, "give life back to music" or some bullshit like that. Music is alive.