Jon Bon Jovi slams Steve Jobs for 'killing' music - MSN Music News

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3 pointsprotomyth2 comments

...the beauty of taking your allowance money and making a decision based on the jacket, not knowing what the record sounded like, and looking at a couple of still pictures and imagining it."

That's what "kids these days" refered to as the problem, which we handily solved, thank you.

Quit your bitching JBJ! Instead of wearing dirty, threadbare headphones in order to "get lost" in music chosen solely on the basis of van-transposed cover art, now I can decide that I want an album from an obscure Norwegian band with 27 fans and I can download it to my phone from anywhere on earth--and I'll pay half the price of a vinyl.

Don't get me wrong, I love record shops. But I love iTunes and AmazonMP3 too. And while changes to the music industry have hurt a lot of good people, Jon Bon Jovi is not one of them.

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