Editorial: Go Buy A Song Roger Skoff worries about the future of music.

Before the phonograph came along, if you wanted to hear music, you either played it yourself or with your friends or family; you went to someplace that music was being played (a church, a salon, a party, a fair, a tavern, a concert, or wherever); or you hired somebody to play it for you. (Imagine King George saying to his Court Musician, George Frederic Handel, “Hey, George, the wife and I are going for a boat ride on the 17th, can you and the boys whip up a little something for the occasion?”).
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