Maybe it is the incessant rain, but I feel a little blue today. Nothing like some music to make me feel better however – and in that vein I did a little reminiscing with Wikipedia. We all remember the audio cassette, don’t we? How uncomplicated was that format!? Forget DRM. Forget lossless reproduction. Forget sound quality. I remember feeling good when I managed to grab a new song off the radio with the stupid DJ talking over top. I could at least listen to the song whenever I wanted!
Those were much simpler times.
Now go read the “Home Dubbing” part of that article and see if it sounds familiar at all. Flash back a few decades and the recording industry was warning us consumers about the same problem they are today – the end of music due to reproduction in the home. Maybe the music industry just takes a long, long, LONG time to die?
Resilient stuff, that music.
I’m sure you’re familiar with the film “High Fidelity” based on the book by the same name by Nick Hornby. Well I just recently read of another book out call “Love is a Mix Tape: Life and Loss, One Song at a Time.” The mix cd has just never filled the gap. Maybe it’s the duration, so much more music on a 90 min. tape!