Earlier today while scanning old photographs and listening to music, it started me thinking about how things used to be when it came to music.

One thing I was thinking about was how a song on the radio would get airplay, then as kids we'd go to the local five and dime and buy the 45 record.

Then from there, it was important how what we heard on the radio was the same sonically as when seeing these performers on TV shows or while performing the song.

I would imagine if you go back in time, a whole lot of lip-syncing was going on. I guess you can even see and hear this in youtube videos of artists from years back.

Then, moving on to MTV and seeing the same thing - no matter what went on in the video, the song had to sonically sound the same as what one grew accustomed to on the radio or by the played format (cassette, cd, et cetera).

It makes me very nostalgic how those days were - how particular songs became such companions to certain events in our lives and actually acted as a book mark for those memories for us and cause such memories to resonate with clarity and vibrancy.

Though I think there is a much larger pool of great music out there, at the same time the opportunity of exposure to this music is both less and greater at the same time; if that even makes sense.

I don't know, maybe I'm missing something by not having some sort of satellite radio, but I also am troubled by how much of the most widely available music is musically the shallowest out there.