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I think a lot of millennials who formed their music taste in the age of Napster, LimeWire, Torrents and Spotify seem to think the internet has everything (given
by sonthonax 7y ago
I think a lot of millennials who formed their music taste in the age of Napster, LimeWire, Torrents and Spotify seem to think the internet has everything (given the illusion of limitless choice).
This is of course not the case and there's so much music that's only realistically available on vinyl.
- stereolambda 7y agoYes, non-streamable music has a specific flavor to it nowadays. But I appreciate that YouTube is now putting a lot of old obscure stuff on "Topic" channels en masse, good quality as well. But it's probably still limited to whatever is owned by big labels.
- NoSorryCannot 7y agoThe entire mainstream music industry moved on from vinyl records decades ago and a vinyl-only release today is going to exclude most people in any generation. At least the people that grew up pirating will likely be aware that a vinyl rip is a thing! And millennials seem to have been largely responsible for vinyl's limited resurgence anyway.
- sp332 7y agoThe situation is even crazier if you look at fragile shellac 78-RPM records. The Internet Archive teamed up with the George Blood company to preserve as many as they can - and they're up to 165,000 records available for streaming from the Archive! https://archive.org/details/georgeblood https://archive.org/details/georgeblood