The internet destroyed rocknroll

[Ryan560]

All great points fellas. Kids just aren't getting the whole experience now. Digging around crates in a record store for hours, actually holding the album in your hands after finally finding what your looking for not to mention the artwork and liner notes. Growing up that's how I found out about new stuff, if I thought the band was great I'd look in the liner notes and see who they thanked or there influences where and buy there albums. Now you search a band on youtube and similar bands come up, it's all done for you...I'm still guilty of downloading some free obscure tracks once in awhile but it's not the same.
I agree MTV is just mindless nonsense now, they don't even play music hardly.

[JohnR]

On the other hand, Youtube is awesome to find obscure renditions of songs, especially live stuff

[fishbones]

I agree that the kids have it easy today, but I'm glad to have everything on the net with easy access. Now that I'm older and have responsibilities, I don't have time to go to Rockit Records in Saugus or Quincy Records and sift through rare or live bootleg CD's. I can find everything I could want and more on the net. I miss the days when I could spend an entire day looking for music in the old record stores, but I love the easy access of finding it all at home.

I also think there's a lot of great music being made now, but you have to look a bit to find it because of all the crap being thrown out there. I listen to satellite radio in the car and am exposed to tons of good stuff that I wouldn't find otherwise. To me, it's the equivalent of staying up late and listening to the college radio stations when I was a teen. It's just a lot easier now.