Listen up bitches

A recent study suggests that downloading music creates listener apathy which is far worse than consumer apathy in regard to purchasing shitty music.

"The degree of accessibility and choice has arguably led to a rather passive attitude towards music heard in everyday life.

"In short, our relationship to music in everyday life may well be complex and sophisticated, but it is not necessarily characterized by deep emotional investment."

Naturally, I blame white people. The history of white people is the history of a brutal clan that extracts meaning, resources and people from a given point and turns them into profitable commodities. Okay, that's a little harsh but think about the glory days of music from Rock & Roll to Rap and realize that the downward spiral began when it garnered the notice of (rich) white people. I'm almost glad that white people will never like Latino music but I'm still suspicious that "The Man" told Yolanda to kill Selena in a forward thinking move to shove J-Lo's big ass down the throats of the masses. Now there's an image.

Anyway, the point of this article and this post is to convey the fact that we all know that most music is crap and new technology doesn't seem to be making it any better. The promise of music downloading has not been realized until a truly popular band can emerge from the Internet without the help of a corporate marketing campaign. Even in this era of Ipods and digital music it's sad to note that the most popular downloads are nothing more than standard Top 40 fare.

And this doesn't mean I'm in favor of hipster Indy garbage, but rather some decent music that doesn't require reading Pitchfork every hour to appreciate or a near lethal dose of X.