Can you make the argument that there is simply too much? That "The WWW" gives us such unfettered access to damn near everything that it just becomes overwhelming and that self preservation instincts kick in and we just shut down and go back listening to the same BLUE ÖYSTER CULT records that we grew up with (not that there's anything wrong with that)? Means of modern sound dissemination make it so easy to fart into a cheap microphone, reproduce that fart in criminally limited quantities so no one should ever hear it.....but then you make an internet for your fart and BOOM it can be everywhere. And you, the consumer, if you don't hear the right fart at the right time, then you are fukkn lagging! Even though there were only 25 copies - in the world. Never mind if you haven't fully digested that last one yet, the one that was your new favorite. Never mind if you haven't memorized every chorus, every guitar break, every intro build up that made that fart a part of your very being like when your 15 year old self got your hands on a new record - because who knew when you were going to be able to get another good one, you know? So never mind that you haven't consumed the last one, because there's something NEW, something EXCITING, and you don't want to MISS OUT, so you turn away from the thing that you love, or something you might love, in favor of something that you heard you might love, or something that you hope to maybe love before anyone else falls in love with it so it can be yours....if only for a little while. But instead it's just a coupla freeks with a drum machine and a 4-track, getting wasted in their bedroom. They kinda sound like THE FALL sometimes, but really you know it's not brilliance, it's just a coupla freeks being freaks. So you keep looking, you keep searching....maybe tomorrow you'll find it. Don't turn around though, don't see what you've already missed - the past is the past...unless you want to shut down.
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