You seem to be forgetting your favorite type of music. Do you think that Bach, Mozart, and Beethoven were not influential without the phonograph?
Your point, though, does make me rethink the value of being able to record music. I like my collection of recordings, but the recording industry has also subjected me to quite a lot of noise over the years. Noise that I otherwise would be blissfully unaware of having ever existed.
Your point, though, does make me rethink the value of being able to record music. I like my collection of recordings, but the recording industry has also subjected me to quite a lot of noise over the years. Noise that I otherwise would be blissfully unaware of having ever existed.
"A wise man ... proportions his belief to the evidence."
— David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Section X, Part I.
