emitchell asked
The album, music's dominant creative framework for the past 40 years, is dying under the wheels of an accelerating revolution. With on-demand downloads becoming the preferred way of obtaining our favorite songs, will we continue to see breakthrough albums like these? The digital age, driven by single-song downloads, threatens to eradicate the multiple-track album, whether on compact disc, cassette or old-fashioned vinyl. It's not just the physical artifact that's joining shellac 78s, turntables and 8-track tapes in the pop graveyard: The very concept of songs integrated into a whole faces extinction...
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