-Digital Medium Phobia?-

I just wish to add that a process of decommercialization of music may bring a fallout to the so called "major" pop labels and turn off bandit rappers from music, and so encourage a rise of artists with a different motivation than just earning money from a gimmick without even caring about music. Although there would still remain the issue of social power thru media control. A separation between business and music as art would function in the case when the artists could earn their living from a simple dayjob, but music creation needs far more energy and effort than an ordinary work.
In any case, maybe things will somehow solve. After all, within the last century there was an ascention of music creativity greater than in all history of mankind, and that's something positive.

I don't know. Maybe I'm just tired of seeing music being used as wallpaper, constantly playing wherever you go to the point making you feel like vomiting and begging for some silence.
Maybe I'm just sick of seeing teenagers with stupid plugs stuffed in their ears damaging their hearing and constantly playing just because it's better than a silence they're afraid of and a communication they're incapable of.
Maybe I'm tired of seeing music used as an old whore by people who have no love for it.
Maybe I'd like to see it in the hands of people who really love it, the same kind of people who used to put an effort into at least walking down to the shop on the corner and browse thru the records.

Sure, the percentage of people who really love music was and always will be the same, but at least once the others couldn't humiliate it like they do now...
God bless the times when music wasn't so easy to possess.

Inspired by this thread I opened another, which is a little OT to this thread but still relevant; viewtopic.php?p=22206#22206 - marketing and sales techniques for independent creators.

I wouldn't rate the long-term survival chances of any music presented on "non-physical" formats, myself. Maybe it doesn't matter, maybe it does, but I'd put money on the vast majority of music made recently and in the medium-term future not existing in any form once a few decades have passed. Hard disc files, and DC-rom burns are certainly something that coule be called a "volatile storage medium" both dependent on the media itself surviving, and the means to reading that media being available long-term as well. Two striking examples of what happens when you present your art on a volatile storage medium:

http://www.stanford.edu/~gdegroat/PF/filmography.htm

http://www.polanegri.com/polafilms_paramount.htm