Bon Jovi slams Jobs for 'killing' music‎

Disclaimer: I am and have been for decades, a huge Bon Jovi fan.

I think Jon is sorta right about the experience of music being different now, and I think you could argue that something has been lost in the process. But I'd argue that the changes in the music industry (not just the ones related to Apple and iTunes, mind you) have a positive side that outweighs that loss: simply put, more music is more accessible to more people than before.

I mean, I grew up in the 80's, buying Bon Jovi and AC/DC and Motley Crue albums on cassette tapes, and the occasional Twisted Sister album on vinyl... and as much fun as that was, I appreciate that now I can jump online and have almost immediate access to millions of songs, by bands that I never would have even heard of (living in a rural hick town in NC) before iTunes / Napster / Shoutcast / Pandora / etc.

Compared to the experience of going into the local pawn shop or Wal-mart, or driving 35 miles to a town big enough to have an actual "record store" and still having access to only a tiny selection of material, I'll take the current model over that any day.

Things are different != things are worse.