The Living Rockumentary

Max, you might be underestimating the key market group of teens. I remember two years ago here at work we had a highschool girl come in and help us with some work. (Don't get me started on how she had never heard of the Police.) I asked her a lot about music and kids buying cds. She said most kids either downloaded the music or bought CDs at school from kids who made them and sold them for 5 bucks. That was two years ago. Two years ago, neither Tony nor Brian had downloaded any music at all and I think Ken and I had just begun with Audio Galaxy. Things change really fast.

Those are the formative years when you learn the value of music, too. If you get music for free during those years, how are you gonna start paying for it? It's like if they started charging you 15 bucks per bag at the grocery store.

I doubt that the Newbury Comix guy hadn't thought of people like you who will collect for fun, but the writer of the article knows that that small group of people won't have much impact on the music industry compared to all the other stuff. Just like there are small stores that sell vinyl now, they don't very much effect Warner Brothers.

Sometimes when you write about this stuff, people assume that you are supporting the change. That's not necessarily true, I just know that most change happens quickly and silently and we don't always step back and see it happening and I am always trying to get a glimpse.

The other night at Madam's after hours party, there was a girl talking about digital video editting. She was lamenting the passing of the more natural and quaint VIDEO editing of the past. She missed the little fuzzy lines you would get from editing on video and felt the digital seemed too sterile. The times are changing fast when people are already nostalgic for video. I couldn't believe it. Has it already been that long since I had the same discussion about film versus video?