I've said this before but I STRONGLY believe that the imortance of info has decreased with a lack of context-knowledge as a result. This is just not because you HAD to read up on shit in order to discover music beyond radio/MTv; it's even more the fact that you put your own money on the line and because of that, you learned that artist A was best on label B in era C simply because you did not want to get burned.

With the current situation, kids don't need to do shit like that; in fact, they can downlad an entire discography and just save the shit they like, it's more convenient but as I said, the context knowledge suffers for people who go into shit that way, at elast in my experience