Recently I've found myself mulling over a lifetime of listening to recorded music and how I've developed particular interests in genres at different times without quite ever casting off any of these completely. Also how I've listened in different ways through what might be termed different platforms at different periods of my life. I've got a feeling that I won't be buying any more CDs in the future, this being tied to how I've been accessing 'new' music of late, and how the means of access has affected the nature of my listening.
Of late I've found it necessary to listen full on, with intensity, for the experience to be worth anything to me at all. The days of casual listening to something in the background appear to be at an end. Which sounds sensible in its way. But leaves me with a sense of something lost that I can't quite articulate for myself.
I suppose what used to be easy just isn't anymore.
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