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It's a Great Time for Wealth Inequality and Music
Unemployment is high and the the environment is going to hell in a handbasket, but if you like music, then times couldn't be better: I heard a snippet of some rhythmic Latin jazz on WBGO Wednesday morning, but didn't hear who the artist was . . . and forgot about it until Thursday, and then I went to WBGO's web-site and found the playlist and learned that it was an Eddie Palmieri song called "Listen Up" and so I popped that into Spotify (which now streams at my workplace) and I was suddenly immersed in some phenomenal Latin jazz by an artist I had never heard before . . . this is a vast improvement over the methods we used when I was a kid (putting a cassette in the boom box, and then racing to the radio to hit record whenever a good song came on) and while I know there are folks that will lament the loss of the mixed-tape or the album . . . or even the investment of paying for a record, which forced you to really listen to it, I still prefer the magic of the internet over those antiquated auditory customs (and I'm sure there are those hi-fi purists who hate the fact that most music is listened to on crappy computer speakers these days).
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Not sure I understand the parenthetical, but it's worth getting decent speakers or your computer. Music doesn't always sound right through earbuds or standard laptop speakers.
Weren't you just ragging The The a day or two ago? Hypocrite.
the parenthetical wasn't explained very well, but even though i have some nice stereo speakers, i never use them because they are hooked to a CD player -- i should figure out how to connect them to my computer. and i was ragging on their name, which is very silly.
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