I just had to repost this story I saw on Drudge about a new study out
of the UK about how
music downloading has affected our experience of music. It
kind of rang true. I was just thinking about how simultaneously
exciting and anticlimactic it was to be handed a leaked copy of the
new
Belle and Sebastien record a month before its release when I
had been waiting with much anticipation to buy it. I will still
purchase the record, but it's just not the same loading it into my iPod
a month early rather than pulling the wrapper off and listening to it
on my stereo with the liner notes out.