In a world of iPods...

Because i have limited access to the internet and very limited access to my thoughts, i am writing this at 11pm in BC on my laptop, with no internet connection... Something I have been thinking about is our generation and our obsession with music. I know it is a broad topic, but i think that because I am slightly... no, I am very obsessed with music, I have the authority to write something about it. It was brought to my attention resently that we have been given the resources, which makes it easier for us to become addicted to such things as music. I sit in my cottage on Salt Spring Island, B.C listening to my iPod when my dad comes along, rips my ear buds out of my head and places them into his ears, as quickly as he did this he recognized the song i had on and starts dancing... embarased, i snatched my headphones back and continue listening to The Beach Boys, and getting my daily fix of classic old school rock n’ roll, my dad said to me, “god, those things have good sound.” I reply, “400 bucks worth of good sound... great” being slightly sarcastic. THIS is the moment my dad walked away laughing at my remark and my brain started to think. When The Beach Boys brought out their records they were on 45s... yes, records, the masive discs that you might see piled in the basement of your parents house not being used, and if you’ve ever heard a record you’ll know that its no MP3 file. Though records were the best quality of sound at the time, we have come along ways. Some of us kids can tell MP3 quality sound from CD quality sound... which I find somewhat rediculous. But my point is that because we have such high quality music for next to nothing, we can afford to become addicted to the music that we enjoy without having to suffer through bad quality, which consciously or not, encourages us to enjoy more music than what would have been humanly possible in the days of 45s... the more we listen to music, the more we love it and the more we need it, which in turn, creates our strong addiction to music. Thank god someone made it easy!