The Living Rockumentary

Well, I don't know, Tony, maybe they have improved on their service. I specifically says FULL albums, for instance. But, I think, the larger point is that a few years down the line there just won't be any reason for folks to burn things to cd because it will be available anywhere anytime anyway. Downloading form the internet in the car? Yeah, probably.

It's a whole new way of thinking that comes from spending time with computers and the internet. I do this in a small way. Like, say I find the lyrics to a song on-line somewhere, I used to always either copy and paste it into word or print it out, but I never do that now, since I know that it already exists somewhere online, and my computer is always connected, there is no reason for me to save it on my computer, the internet is just like another hard drive.

It's kind of the same thing with burning cds and when you think of it that way, and drop our preconceived notion of an album as a physical thing, then you can see that 10 bucks a month pays for far more that one copy of Abbey Road. The CD Burning thing is just a stepping stone to get us cavemen into the concept of music not having any physical attributes. In the new world, if something exists somewhere, it exists everywhere.

This reminds me of a thing I repeat all the time at work, "If something has ever been typed into a computer once, you never need to type it again ever, unless it's been deleted."