Since I can get any album I want whenever I want. I realized in this age of downloading I don't hardly give albums a chance anymore when it's so easy to go on to the next one.

Do we even care who produced the track?

Do you still remember whole albums?

Do you know the name of your favorite song on a album or just that its #8

When one of your friends buys an album on the release date and is bumping it in the ride do you wish he'd turn it off because you played it out 2 months ago?

Have you ever thrown a cd-r out the car window but would never throw one you bought out?

The reason I made this post is back in the day I could quote every Prince,
D'angelo, Mobb Deep, Cnn, etc album line for line now not hardly.

I usually only listen to an album once and haven't opened hundreds from the .rar folder

So is music now real bad or is it so disposable?

It's heightened my senses

Not AT ALL.

Downloading expanded my musical education, esp these past 2 years since I really got into it. There're aritsts I discovered lately that I'll never stumble on in an avarage record store(Little Miss Cornshucks and Annisteen Allen - Where in the pits of HELL am I gonna find an album from them?).

The only downer side of it I guess is like you said, not being fimiliar with the liner notes/credits. But it doesn't hurt my musical education that greatly anyway.
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It has heightened my musical experience a million times. It allows the opportunity to explore different genres, remixes, obscure tracks, live versions of songs etc. most of us would never hear. My personal code of ethics for downloading is pretty strict and I frequently buy the actual cd when I like it as I truly love supporting the artists that bring me so much joy (a broad term as I've just discovered the song "Relax" on The Glove which is hardly joyful). I've said many times here and in other venues that if certain artists would just open the vaults the desire to download would diminish significantly for many of us.

I noticed I don't memorize as many songs but that's simply because I don't stay stuck on the same handful of cassettes like back then.

I have a friend who would agree with your statement but personally its massively expanded my music horizons and the irony is i actually buy more music now then ever because its more affordable. However most of the stuff i do buy is older. I love discovering an artist and then exploring all their music.

As for the 'do you still remember whole albums?' question. I can't even stand Greatest Hits albums. I have to listen to the whole album, the whole experience. I know Robert Plant when interviewed said that he couldn't see how people could just buy one two tracks from an album as it defeats the purpose of an album. I truly do feel sorry for people who do this as they're missing out.

It's great to get to explore artists that you wouldn't neccessarily want to buy albums from until you know if you like them or not, but when it's great, sometimes you buy the real version anyway, or even maybe go to the show, so the artist is definitely making money both ways, as well as gain more fans than would happen otherwise.

Do we even care who produced the track? I definitely do

Do you still remember whole albums? of course

Do you know the name of your favorite song on a album or just that its #8 for the most part i'll remember the song title

When one of your friends buys an album on the release date and is bumping it in the ride do you wish he'd turn it off because you played it out 2 months ago? no. i've never understood the concept of considering some that was released a couple years ago let alone a couple months ago 'old'. if it's good..it's good. even if i've played it out. lol

Have you ever thrown a cd-r out the car window but would never throw one you bought out? no.

So is music now real bad or is it so disposable? i think it's a little bit of everything. though i do find less and less artist that interest me past their 1st song or 2.

I'd have to say that it has reinforced my musical experience.
That's because the bulk of what I download are older albums that many times can't be purchased anymore.

Generally these are from sources that are super music enthusiasts who go the extra mile to include liner notes along with artwork.


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I'd say that downloading has both expanded and dulled my music senses. Like many here, it's exposed me to far more music than I ever could imagine. At the same time, however, downloading has greatly reduced my tolerance for filler. And frankly, most CD's these days have had lots of filler tracks on them, and they have had them since the early 1990's. Yes, it's great for someone like Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, and Prince to put out album masterpieces like "Houses of the Holy", "Dark Side of the Moon" and "Purple Rain' respectively, but for most artists the album is simply a collection of singles. They also benefited by only having 8 to 10 songs on the album, whereas a lot of albums from the 1990's onward felt the need to fill the CD by putting 14 to 20 tracks on the album, many of which probably didn't belong in the first place.

As I said in another thread, I think it's actually a win-win for me (and the labels). I'm able to expose myself to a lot more music, which in turn leads me to buying a lot more music. It's heightened it in that sense.

But yeah, I know that if I end up not liking something right away, I don't really give it much of a chance beyond that. Maybe a second or third listen, but not much more than that. It makes what I don't like a lot more disposable if I haven't paid good money for it and am not interested in doing so.

On the other hand, there are just so many albums coming out and so many of them complete shit that in most cases, they get what they deserve. I don't feel the need to try to make myself like something just because I paid for it and it's taking up space anyway, so I might as well enjoy it.

Oh ya.

I saw Leroy Hutson's "Closer To The Source" CD on a neighbouring exchange store for 4 euros, but thought why would I buy a crappy, useless CD for 4 euros when I can get shiny new MP3s for free. In 2001 it wouldn't have been the same.

Downloading and the online music community, in general, has put me in touch with so much music that I otherwise would never have been exposed to. It's a blessing, in so many respects.