Unlimited accessibility, downloadable tracks, re-issues and mp3 blogs and other archivists, live-streaming online pirate radio stations and all sorts of endless digital radio stations and digital TV stations, the constant barrage of pop culture everywhere, a neverending, suffocating soundtrack to everything that happens at any time, apart from in the Gobi desert or Amazon rain forest or something (if you're not in a van) has effectively killed music. I mean don't you feel sick off it, glutted? No one ever looks forward to listening to music anymore because it's never switched off.
This is apart from the fact that pop music has turned out to be meaningless shorn of context and narrative (always both imposed and created as well as existent). I mean, even something as small and apparently unimportant as losing the concept of Side A and Side B of an album has been aesthetically debilitating. All the best music has been produced working against limitations, not without them. It's more than inertia, it's a terminal condition! I feel like I've been living without music for the last 8 years, precisely because I've been suffocated by it. I don't even like stuff I like anymore.