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"The thing about vinyl (and the cassette and the CD for that matter) is that it was cooked up by the record business principally to aid the record business, having been developed by Columbia Records in 1948."
Records were invented to aid the not-yet-invented record business?
Records were invented to aid the not-yet-invented record business?
You cannot talk about the impact of MP3 without discussing how home-recordable tapes (and then CD-R) allowed people to copy and share music, creating new cultural norms.
Tapes (and to some extent CDs) allowed for mobile music, again creating new cultural norms.
"Vinyl contrived the ideology of The Album As A Body Of Unassailably Great Work"
Except no, because early vinyl did not allow for all that much music on each side. It was basically "singles". If you wanted an *album* you needed a literal album of records.
Except no, because early vinyl did not allow for all that much music on each side. It was basically "singles". If you wanted an *album* you needed a literal album of records.
See previous tweet I added with the assumption that this about the move from shellac to LP vinyl.
It *is* a shame that the notion of 43-50 minutes of coupled tracks still seems an unassailable and magic notion.
It *is* a shame that the notion of 43-50 minutes of coupled tracks still seems an unassailable and magic notion.
Worth noting that the ability to make a living selling a physically-scarce object that delivers your music is a fairly small blip in the history of music making, yet is treated as The Way Things Are Supposed to Be.
