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38% Teens bought NO Cds 2006; 48% 2007
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Re: 38% Teens bought NO Cds 2006; 48% 2007
Mar 02, 2008, 17:59
keith a wrote:

Quite right. Surely that sounded square and old fashioned thirty years ago?


Not really -- what's "old fashioned" today was "current" in the past, by definition. Once upon a time people really believed "music could change the world", but we're far too realistic for that kind of thinking these days.

This is my basic contention -- the era of "rock records as the primary vehicle for youth culture" is over. That was a baby boomer phenomenon, based on the technology of the day. Anyone who still "believes in the power of rocknroll" is basically trying to hang on to their youth (like the middle aged guy who buys a shiny red sportscar on his 40th birthday.)

Kids today live in a media world dominated by the Internet, email, instant messaging, cell phones, iPods, etc. The "album" as we knew it won't survive any more than epic poems in iambic pentameter could survive in the age of novels and newspapers (to say nothing of the age of radio, cinema, TV, satelite dishes and so on!)

The only permanent thing in this world is change!
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