“While using Napster for the first time was exciting, it also forced you to confront your own inadequacy. Everyone on the internet had better music than you did, or at least more of it. You could spend whole evenings downloading to close the gap, but what were you actually supposed to do with all these new songs? Listen to them? That could take years, and all the while you’d be downloading more music.”
– RICHARD BECK (taken from his essay about Pitchfork, ‘5.4’)
This is a great read. It is mostly about the rise of Pitchfork, but as you can imagine, it also straddles a lot of different thoughts that one would come across when talking about the rise of music’s latest king maker. Including everybody’s insatiable desire to own every piece of music created. I feel like I am just recovering (slowly) from that addiction.
