Remembering The Days When We Had To Walk Uphill In The Snow (Both Ways) To Buy An Album [Videodrone]

Jay Smooth on the lost excitement surrounding albums' release dates, and the migration of the "event" that constituted an album dropping from the managed-by-labels excitement around going to a specific place on a specific day to the more chaotic, less social way that albums are "released" these days. I found myself nodding wistfully at a lot of his points, although I maintain that holding Radiohead up as a way to do things now is a bit of a trick for any band without a home base of rabider-than...

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