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something representing the apex of western culture, while victrolas and 45s and sheet music were for the lower classes too poor to get into concert halls.
But I feel like music criticism and geeked fans viewed Albums as a way to legitimise popular music as High Art as well, with the best of it representing a legitimate cultural document of that time, on par with a great Novel perhaps, while the single was a transient product made for the good time of the moment.
However the market NEVER saw it like that, they and the record companies both saw them as t-shirts for the most part, and that attitude bled over to the internet age (well, that and the death of the record store of course). You never know tho, younger cats could, for outsider 'coolness' end up getting behind some albums they would deign going into a store and, you know, actually buy.
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