[larry b]

Mmeh. Young people still enjoy the act of 'listening' to music. It's not dead. Neither is music. IMHO that is a very short-sighted point of view. I'm pretty sure there's probabably been people bitching about 'crappy popular music' ever since the transmission towers began broadcasting radio waves. People have been doing other tasks while listening (or not listening) to music just as long as it's been being recorded/broadcast/purchased/played at home.

Technology changes. Formats change. Tastes change. Technology advances. What are we to do? I'm personally not one to get my panties up in a tizzy about it.

I'm pretty confident that even today's 'loudness war' will eventually subside as the masses realize that dynamics in music can be a good, if not necessary thing.