[atlantaprog] Re: Fwd: [ARTNEWS] death of the album?

Downloads just don't sound very good, though.  Yeah, the technology will 
probably improve, but there's still more to albums than just the music.  
There's 
that whole mystique...power, mystery, the hammer of the gods...that comes with 
the purchasing of an artifact, closing yourself in, slipping into the player, 
immersing yourself in the thing and developing an attachment to not only the 
songs, but to the sequence of songs.  You can't get that from a CD burner, a 
stack of CDRs and a Sharpie.  

Of course, right now I am still reeling over the fact of Brian Wilson 
performing Smile.  

The whole business of "closure" has become a total pop psychology cliche, but 
I just find it so cool and inspirational that Brian Wilson can go back to 
this great, legendary, lost piece of music that he simply couldn't finish in 
1967 
that contributed to his eventual nervous breakdown and not only finish the 
bugger off, but perform it live in front of a crowd that, from all reports, was 
ecstatic.  I can't wait for the eventual CD release.

CH

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