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A constant theme of this column has been nostalgia, not so much for music itself, but for ways of listening to it: the besieged sense that there was once a proper way to approach music, and that this is vanishing, scorched by technological novelty. I’m not very sympathetic: I loved listening to music when I was 20, but I don’t remember feeling that the ecosystem of cassettes and record stores and newsprint music writing was a particular paradise. I think I just loved being 20.
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Poptimist: Take Me to the River | Features | Pitchfork
Tom Ewing, in his final Poptimist column. I was arguing about this sort of thing with someone 10 years older than me yesterday - as much as things change, people who care are going to care, and people who might be distracted will be distracted. Everyone has their own experience with art, and I don’t think some are more valid because they resonate more with my own.
