“First they killed off vinyl 45s. Now even the days of CD singles are numbered.
.In the future, laments Paul Morley, pop fans will collect nothing but lists in cyberspace. […]
The iPod, at once a nail in the coffin and some kind of saviour, is an object that seems beautiful enough to honour the history of the popular song as a vast and varied art form, and to be the futuristic replacement to the vinyl single.
It represents a brave new world in the way that the CD never did. The iPod, the place where storage becomes magic, now helps us say for sure: It’s all over.”
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