The changing face of Music

Rob made me think about this last week...
I think back to all the time in my life spent in various music stores in every place I have ever been in the world over the years. I think about how most of them are gone. That's a huge shift in the way we interact with one very huge and important creative medium. I really don't think we'll truly understand how huge it was/is for a little while more, then perhaps it will be too late for many things and we'll never look back in other ways. Which is which remains to be seen.

Lemme try and state this more plainly. It's gone from my peak consumption of, on average 1 cd purchased in a brick and mortar store PER WEEK, to being able to count on one hand how many times I did it this YEAR! Most of my purchases of books and Cd's occur on online. Bookstores thankfully are still around, and I frequent them still pretty often. Our ideas of buying, the physicality of things we cherish, the experience, are all changing. Our kids won't have a problem with this, will they? They'll just stay home and shop.