rsowen
Idlewoodarian

I love everything Kevin McMahon!
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Ya one of the parts I don't really agree with was the video games/clear channel/mtv mix pulling kids away from seeking out music on their own terms. While there's a point there, I think the last 5 years has been all about finding your own music. Call it piracy, but the internet has empowered anyone to really explore their own musical tastes. And this really trumps, in my opinion, any homogenization of musical tastes the industry attempts. As a 17 year old I was a budding music geek, and I look back now and my musical tastes didn't get much more obscure than prick, placebo, radiohead, Catherine wheel and so on. And now we complain about the insta-hype a pitchfork 'best new music' shout out creates. This is progress in the right direction.
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