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-- AdamGold? - 03 Apr 2008 | | | Second, viewing an album cover online can inhibit a consumer’s ability to have a proper first impression of album cover art. Cover art is usually carefully chosen by the artist and it is, in most cases, meant to add a visual component to compliment the audio portion of the experience to complete one unitary work of art. A consumer only gets one first impression and a case can be made that the shock of walking into a record store and finding oneself face to face with a naked 13 year old girl on the cover of Blind Faith’s self titled 1969 album cannot be approximated by finding a small jpeg image of the same picture on itunes. | |
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< | Third, a physical album is a permanent and tangible piece of art. Downloading music does not allow an individual to open an album jacket and view lyrics, liner notes and credits which provide line-up information, recording dates, studio details. | >
> | Third, a physical album is a permanent and tangible piece of art. Downloading music does not allow an individual to open an album jacket and view lyrics, liner notes and credits which provide line-up information, recording dates and studio details. | | | | |
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< | Finally, unless someone only downloads from “officially licensed” websites (which may not be the case for some downloaders), reliability with regard to sound quality, file integrity, and knowing who one is actually playing guitar on the mp3 labeled “Gimme Shelter” may be lacking. | >
> | Finally, unless someone only downloads from “officially licensed” websites (which may not be the case for some downloaders), reliability with regard to sound quality, file integrity and knowing who is actually playing guitar on the mp3 labeled “Gimme Shelter” may be lacking. | | | 3) The Loss of the Musical Album
An album is the product of a careful process of selecting which songs to place in the final product and in which order the listener hears them. Often, the artist’s creation is necessarily dependent on the consumer’s appreciation of the entire entity.(2) | |
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< | Taken alone, “Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds” cannot approximate the full experience of listening to Sgt. Pepper’s in its entirety. Perhaps the Beatles intended “Lucy” to prepare the listener, sonically or mentally, to appreciate the final, single note of “A Day in the Life,” which lasts for 42 seconds; a feat much harder to accomplish without the benefit of album context. While it is true that there is noting to prevent one from acquiring an entire album as a single data file, it is equally true that there is nothing to force one to do so. This is troubling as online sources allow individuals to download a single song from a concept album, a work built around a single developing theme, which was expressly meant to be appreciated in its entirety according to the artist. Downloading a single song from The Who’s “Tommy” or Pink Floyd’s “Dark Side of the Moon” is tantamount to watching only one scene from The Phantom of the Opera; it may be fun, but it does not convey the full experience as designed by its creator. | >
> | Taken alone, “Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds” cannot approximate the full experience of listening to Sgt. Pepper’s in its entirety. Perhaps the Beatles intended “Lucy” to prepare the listener, sonically or mentally, to appreciate the final, single note of “A Day in the Life,” which lasts for 42 seconds; a feat much harder to accomplish without the benefit of album context. While it is true that there is nothing to prevent one from acquiring an entire album as a single data file, it is equally true that there is nothing to force one to do so. This is troubling as online sources allow individuals to download a single song from a concept album, a work built around a single developing theme, which was expressly meant to be appreciated in its entirety according to the artist. Downloading a single song from The Who’s “Tommy” or Pink Floyd’s “Dark Side of the Moon” is tantamount to watching only one scene from The Phantom of the Opera; it may be fun, but it does not convey the full experience as designed by its creator. | | | Conclusion |
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