I watched this movie and it brought up a lot of interesting ideas for me. While I agree with a lot of what this movie says I don’t agree with the idea that the internet is a bad thing for music/bands in general. For example there is some point where the drummer from the Black Keys is talking about how since a record store in Seattle played their records in the store they got about 150 people at their show back when they first started. You should ask the Arctic Monkeys how many people they got at their first shows from putting their music up on Myspace. One thing I did think was interesting was the idea of community, which along with record stores, happens at shows. Don’t get me wrong I love the record store as much as anyone, worked at a couple in my time, especially coming up and it was a right of passage and a paid opportunity to study music for hours on end that proved invaluable, plus all the music for free at my finger tips I could check out. However nowadays I can research things much more quickly and efficiently on the interweb…

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