Remember the old days when ya had no idea of when a new album was coming out? Ya just had to visit the record bins every week until SURPRISE! There's the new album with a new cover and new songs and you couldn't wait to get it home and sit through that magical discovery of new tunes! Carefully placing the needle on the vinyl.
Now we keep track of every move an artist makes, make set lists of concerts, and sample new album tunes months before the CD is released...we even read the liner notes and see the artwork. By the time we get the album there's little left to discover. The tunes are still great but maybe we've lost a little something of the magic.
I'm as guilty of this as anyone -- hungry for news and snatching up everything I can find. I just get sentimental for the old days...realizing I would never give up our modern marvels of information gathering! I'm such a hypocrit!
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