>It's just that you're not differentiating between 'recorded
>music' and 'music itself'.
>
>See...'recorded music' has been a novelty to us for around 80
>years and because of the resources, technology and delivery
>resources associated with it.....IT COST MONEY TO OBTAIN.
>
>Those times are over. 'Recorded music' is no longer an
>economic commodity. I could burp into a microphone, send it
>out, and you could hear it within seconds.

It's probably complicated that more and more of our popular music is recording-oriented in its very conception and the live performance of it is the novelty (based more on the excitement of seeing the performer in the flesh than actually consuming the music).

I guess the way to adapt to that is for artists to go back to basics and once again make their live show the core of the identity as musicians, but it just doesn't work as well for some genres.

Like hip-hop. I know it's a terrible thing to say, but despite its origins as a primarily live phenomena that people didn't believe could even translate to record, modern hip-hop is a studio form and the live performance is an afterthought in which most of the time you can barely even hear al the clever lines being spit.

*shrug*