Re: 54 minutes of nostalgia

On Wed, 26 Mar 2008 23:17:49 GMT, HVS <usenet@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>On 26 Mar 2008, QueBarbara wrote
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>> Can you imagine living before there was recorded music easily 
>> available? If you lived in a remote area, you might go months,
>> or even years, without hearing music. 
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>I don't think that was remotely the case:  you made music instead of 
>consuming the delivered product.
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>I don't mean in any way to hold that up as more admirable -- but I'm 
>fairly certain the same *amount* of music existed, only in a 
>different form.
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>My reaction to your comment was that it was exactly equivalent to 
>saying "Can you imagine living before there were bakers?  If you 
>lived in a remote area, you might go months, or even years, without 
>having ready access to good bread".

That's not a good comparison, for me.  Sure, you can make your own
music, but the quality, man, the quality.  This is of much greater
im****tance (to me) than the quality of the bread. I'd give up the good
bread long before I gave up the music.

-- 
QueBarbara