Since we meet Swati from time to time at one of our favorite bars and her CD “Small Gods” is one of my current favorites, I thought it would be nice to have her sign the CD. However I downloaded the album from iTunes, so the only way would be printing the cover art, having her sign it and then scan it again and add it to the iTunes library.
Now this seems a quite geeky thing to do and probably not worth the effort, but it makes one think about what we loose during the transition from physical media to free-floating bits and bytes that travel wires and the air in light speed.
We still have a couple of hundred vinyl records on display in our apartment (although we have to turntables at the moment) and each of them tells a story of where I found it and what my life looked like at this time. And then, of course, there's cover art, booklets and other stuff that made a record seem precious. Some records used to be mysterious in the pre-Google age, because I didn't know more about the musicians than a (probably fake) name.
Now this is all gone, all information is plain in the open and music is available 24/7 from everywhere with a mouse-click. That's progress, no doubt, but again, something certainly got lost.
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