This has been nagging at me for some time now and my feelings are incredibly mixed on the subject. On one hand I love the fact that so many bands are now being exposed to such an incredibly huge audience. On the other hand, you know, I worked a really long time to amass my music collection and attain the level of “rock snobbery” I’m at. Whatever. This article kind of helped sum up this quandary a bit. I’ve kind of gone over this a bit before and this adds another dimension since I am starting to get a little sick of everyone thinking they’re a freaking critic just because they’ve got a bunch o’ tunes on the ol’ iPod.
Meh, maybe you just shouldn’t mind me since I’m probably just being a jetlagged grumpy old man today…
I gave up being a rock snob for Lent. I don’t quite get the “more is better” with iPods. I only have 2000 or so songs in mine. I don’t need to hear every song I own when I’m on shuffle.
I understand how you feel, but on the other hand I dont know what I would do if I still had to choose which ten or twenty cd’s I wanted to take to school with me that day. All of those cd’s were also recently stolen out of my peice of shit car, but digital music came through in a pinch with access to my favorite tunage.
Don’t get me wrong…I LOVE DIGITAL MUSIC!
I am also a proponent of file sharing since I think it’s a great way to get turned on to new things…I just miss the days of actually building your own music collection instead of swiping somebody else’s.