Chapter 3

Honestly, music has started to get really stupid.  Before, like in the 70's and 80's during the glory days of rock n' roll, music seemed to actually mean something.  Great bands and artists like, The Police, Aerosmith, Lynyrd Skynyrd, The Ramones, Van Halen, and even Ozzy Osbourne;  all had lyrics and music that, at least in my opinion, actually meant something.  Rock was also the most popular music during these times but now, it seems like rock has taken a back seat to hip-hop and pop music.  I like very few songs of this genre and I think it's horrible how people can actually listen to this but considering that there aren't many good rock songs anymore, I guess I can understand.

Music has gotten so much more easier to acquire and portable, too.  In the past ten years, we've gone from having CD players, to mp3 players, iPods, and now iPhones being able to do pretty much anything you can imagine with media.  Not being around for when people had to use vinyl records and needed a big record player, all I got to see was cassette players, which were still pretty portable.  Instead of lugging around a big record, you just had to bring a cassette over to a friend's house and it seemed like everyone had some kind of cassette player, so you didn't have to worry about that.

Considering how easy it's gotten to obtain music, it's also gotten a lot easier to pirate it, as well.  When we had CD's, you could just go to Limewire and download music for free, then burn it onto a blank CD.  Some people still do that today, but now people just download some mp3 file onto their iPods.  I wouldn't know because I just use an internet-based playlist thing to listen to music called Grooveshark.  It's gotten really easy to just download music illegally and so many people do it, nobody really even cares anymore besides the music industry.  They haven't been cracking down on it or it's too hard to monitor, but nothings really being done about it, so it's not going to stop anytime soon.