It ain't just the females kids, it's just about EVERYBODY nowadays. Anti-Social media access shares some of the responsibility as mentioned, but that doesn't explain the resurgence of vinyl sales - a good sign.
The walkman and the iPod combined to remove the tangible sense of ownership we received during the vinyl heyday. Buying music used to involve a scheduled and often desperate trip to "the record shop" to get the latest thing. Then you had to make the time to listen to it, to actually sit down when you got home to listen.
It took aforethought, planning, desire.
Now you can download a new release while you're on the train or the toilet bowl, and it disappears into that little portable piece of plastic without so much as a hello.
I now have to write down the music I purchase via download because after I do I often forget what I downloaded.
The walkman and the iPod combined to remove the tangible sense of ownership we received during the vinyl heyday. Buying music used to involve a scheduled and often desperate trip to "the record shop" to get the latest thing. Then you had to make the time to listen to it, to actually sit down when you got home to listen.
It took aforethought, planning, desire.
Now you can download a new release while you're on the train or the toilet bowl, and it disappears into that little portable piece of plastic without so much as a hello.
I now have to write down the music I purchase via download because after I do I often forget what I downloaded.