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KUO Music

| MUSIC He Came, He Heard, He Shared Не EN years ago the digital music revolution got jump-started with the invention of Nap- ster and the rise of file sharing. In 1999 the artist and blogger Andrew Kuo was a 21- year-okd music obsessive who kept a record of ev- ery album he bought and every show he saw. (He still does.) Below he charts the way his experience of acquiring and enjoying music has changed along with the advent of iPods, MP3 blogs, Tunes, My- Space, streaming. RapidShare and Twitter. "I enjoy music more than ever, and I spend more time on it than ever, but I'm not participating in it in the same way in that I'm spending a lot less money," he said. "When I hear that an album leaks, I want to hear it right away. Instead of finding information one step at a time, one record at a time, now it seems like the information finds you, from multiple and seemingly endless sources." THE EVOLUTION OF MY MUSIC CONSUMPTION DURING THE LAST DECADE 1999 2009 "It took weeks, but I finally found it!" (Nas on LP.) "Bring beer! We can listen to it together!" I work. I get paid. I buy. I'm a grown man, man. The sun ... it burns! MONEY SPENT ON ALBUMS INTERNET IS DOWN. INTERNET IS DOWN. I had to back up my songs? $2,457 Wow, this Autechre 12-inch looks (and sounds) killer! - Do hangovers exist if iTunes can't smell you? It's like an endless buffet of gray food. $16.99 for "Vol. 3 ... Life and Times of S. Carter"? "You've had my Palace 7-inch for two months, dude." A seratch - rest in peace, Modest Mouse album. The easier it comes, the easier it goes. It all fits on this tiny little metal thing! All the walking - good cardio. With 6,874 records and CD's, moving is dead to me. You go all the way there and the Slant 6 is sold out. A link to that link led me to the best remix everl $243 "Hey, can you I.M. me that track? Got it, thanks." The price sure seems right| I WOULD BUY MORE ALBUMS IF MEASURING MY ENTHUSIASM 1999 →2009 Driving to Chicogo to see a tiny dot that is Lou Reed in blazing heat? WHO ISN'TI? The stack of ugly tour shirts that I call: I'm Sorry I Didn't Pay for Any of Your Music. Here Is $15. Like I care about your minute-by-minute Tweets at the Raekwon show. Wait ... you stopped? Where's that Baltimore remix of that cumbia remix with that OJ da Juiceman verse? Oh, forget it. . But it'll just take up space where "Eastbound & Down" episodes should be in my hard drive. WHY RIGHT NOW IS THE "GOLDEN AGE" FOR FANS Time to set up a premium RapidShare account! Take my money, please! (Wwhat recession) 1 They made me taller and more handsome. 2 They were as great as the Very Best's album. 3 They were $5.99. (For the thing, not the file.) We can get what we want, when we want it and watch the Travel Network at the same time. 4 IF Kanye told me l'm the cheapest dude "of all time." 5 They would do the opposite of clutter my room. The neo-hippie/minimal techno/bounce music that beams into my computer's brain is actually great! "What show are you going to? Oh, I'm on their MySpace listening now. Sounds good! See you in 201* "Make that 25. I'm downloading the entire Mighty Mighty Bosstones discography right now." 6 You threw in a therapy session or two. 7 They were delivered to me with Chinese food. 8 10 percent of all proceeds went to an Unrest reunion. 9 Conor Oberst returned to his old sound. Is it me or is there 420 percent more music to choose fromt More Thom Yorke remixes? Why not? Hear song. Turn on phone. Find song. Buy song. Jam on train ride home. Send to friend. Sure, it's great for freeloaders now, but while avoiding all "watering the garden" and "biting hands 10 They sounded like the last Neko Case record. that feed" analogies, what are we gonna do when the industry stops growing or feeding? Oh wait .. SITTING DOWN AND LISTENING TO AN ALBUM FOR 20 MINUTES 1999 (0:00). (20:00) 2009 (0:00)- (20:00) I'm glad I bought two of these Rites of Spring 7-inches 'cause I might never see them again! Humans support humansl And that means humans buy Belle and Sebastian CD singles. I will give this Huggy Bear record to my kids someday, and they will be stoked. This probably took as long to make as it took to get. (Three minutes.) This is amazingl I'm going to buy a copy of this tomorrow out of respect! At least I didn't have to get a used copy of this just to find out it's "eh." Artwork schmartwork. Another carbon footprint for a DJ Screw mixtape? But if this leeching continues, what will happen? Change - :) Death - :(

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Andrew Kuo on the current state of music. He kills it on the graphics and statistical humor in The New York Times.

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