A new documentary from Paramount+, How Music Got Free, tells the inside story of how albums shed their exoskeletons and became something more ethereal and less profitable... But while it traces the overarching business story in forensic detail, How Music Got Free doesn't quite capture what it felt like to be a music fan living through this extraordinary moment as it unfolded.
Well before Steve Jobs promised to put a thousand songs in our pockets-and well, well before a thousand songs seemed like a relative pittance next to the infinite expanse of a Spotify account, the peak of musical mobility was a book of CDs... Revisiting it in 2020 revealed all we've lost since it was my main source for music-and may explain why some older music formats are making a comeback.
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