Another thing I've been thinking about lately is how many tunes have I missed out on old albums? That is one good thing about current television - how often some show can play some obscure song by some forgotten act.

David Simon of The Wire fame was great for that.

Then, I think of how in the digital age, none of these gadgets force a person to listen to an entire album without being able to skip songs and what that means. Sure, it did suck when some turd song was sandwiched in between two great songs on a LP or cassette (gosh, recall the advent of the searching function on cassette players that allowed a person to FF through a song at a time), but so many good songs or later liked songs had to have been discovered by the LP and cassette being unable to be skipped through.