Originally Posted by MediaGuy1974
...technology tends to spin things 180 degrees every 25 years or so. With today's file sharing and the like, how long before the collaborators take charge of the environment? I think it's coming...


Hi Steve! I think about this point a lot...and it occurs to me that this is already happening. But the thing is, we geezers have an ingrained sense of the larger community having access to relatively few resources...as in TV being ABC, CBS and NBC...and the whole idea of Top 40 radio. But that whole structure has been expanding for decades now, and may even be on the verge of toppling. Truth is, right now, if you dig around a little, you can find anything you're looking for somewhere on a streaming internet source...but the idea of Most Of Us listening to any particular source just gets more and more elusive.

Music has always come easy to poor folks. Then rich folks commission it, and a few poor folks get richer. Pretty soon we all think of music as a way to get rich.

But when the whole house of cards comes tumbling down, like it always does, again and again, we find ourselves back at home again pinching pennies...and happy to have the richness of music to comfort us.


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