Yeah, I agree with both of you. The internet has enabled me to get into so much music I would never have thought to try, or indeed have the money to buy, and in that regard has really broadened my musical outlook. But I remember the thrill of going into your local record shop to find that your favourite band had a new album out. Before the net and all those lists, you didn't know about this unless you got a fanzine or read it in a mag. That's been lost now: we know like a year beforehand that so-and-so is planning a new album.
I remember when I thought Marillion were dead (stop cheering, Urban!) and was amazed to find a secondhand CD copy of "Seasons end", their first album after Fish, in of all things a bloody religious book shop that did other second hand stuff. Tell that to kids these days, they won't believe ya!
Yeah, the element of wonder is basically gone in that regard. Like Steinman said: "There ain't no Coup deVille hiding at the bottom of a Crackerjack box"!
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