"Music Is Too Easy To Consume" by Rick Beato
In this video commentary, Rick Beato shares with viewer "The Real Reason Why Music Is Getting Worse" via his POV, and I am especially agreeable with his rationale/commentary in "Art 2: Music Is Too Easy To Consume" (from the 8:00 mark onwards), where he essentially describes my thought-process to a T.
The notion we had growing up consuming our music, is far different to the generation(s) now, undoubtably, and is something I hold unto (and also an "excuse" for my hoarding ways :p), as folks now might find it much easier to throw things away - be it physical items or intangibles - as the process of procuring them, is not worth the effort of keeping them, subject to each person's circumstances or otherwise, of course.
I am choosing what I have to throw away and to continue keeping/hoarding, is most times asking me to choose "what memories I want to keep". Memories that linger in the mind, perhaps, but not at the tip at most times too, only manifesting itself when the item is held ion hand, or off someone evokes it. And even if someone mentions it (as we often do when we share our lives from decades ago), but there is literally nothing of it to share or show, so everything is left to the imagination, understandable so.
A couple of examples come to mind - one directly related rot music, and the other not at all but is personal to me...
"3 Tapes for $5", back in the 80's consisted of bootlegged cassette tapes, which essentially allowed me the opportunity to listen to more music and music makers that In could have possibly afforded when I was a schooling teenager, where I have to literally save $$$ from my lunches, to cobble up to spend in the tapes, and even thought, it was a crap shoot on WHO I bought. If the radio DJ spoke or mentioned either the band or song, that would've been a bonus for me to somehow figure out or track down the tapes. There was no Internet, there was no online searches or music portals nor YouTube, but music magazines that make no sound LOL
Has anyone not from my generation, in Singapore, seen these "3 Tapes for $5"? Is anyone interested at all to see them? Well, I still have (some) of them, and will hopefully share images of them, before I hawk them off at the coming vintage flea market I would be vending them off (read more HERE) :p
On another totally different tangent: When I had my Stroke in 2010, I'd purchase a walking cane to assist me. I had purposefully chosen one with a "metallic pink" stick, simply because I wanted it to be recognizable, if ever I dropped it or lost it. "Did you see that shiny pink cane?"
And for added "Identity", for when I brought and used the walking stick when I went overseas, I made and stuck a TOYSREVIL sticker on it! Not that anyone wants to see that walking cane, but I still have it, and cannot bear to throw it away, for fear of: If ever I needed to use it again, I won't be throwing $$$ away (LOL), and if someone else needed the use of a walking cane, I have it, and it helped me navigate my path for quite sometime, before I need not needed it when I could walk on my own.
Yes, I am a unwavering sentimental person struggling with pragmatism, surrounded by the hoard of my past, memories faded by hanging by the edge of my consciousness ... brain overflowing and unable to digest new thoughts and experiences, perhaps...? LOL
"Whatever", folks. I am now subscribed to youtube.com/@RickBeato, cheers.
The notion we had growing up consuming our music, is far different to the generation(s) now, undoubtably, and is something I hold unto (and also an "excuse" for my hoarding ways :p), as folks now might find it much easier to throw things away - be it physical items or intangibles - as the process of procuring them, is not worth the effort of keeping them, subject to each person's circumstances or otherwise, of course.
I am choosing what I have to throw away and to continue keeping/hoarding, is most times asking me to choose "what memories I want to keep". Memories that linger in the mind, perhaps, but not at the tip at most times too, only manifesting itself when the item is held ion hand, or off someone evokes it. And even if someone mentions it (as we often do when we share our lives from decades ago), but there is literally nothing of it to share or show, so everything is left to the imagination, understandable so.
A couple of examples come to mind - one directly related rot music, and the other not at all but is personal to me...
"3 Tapes for $5", back in the 80's consisted of bootlegged cassette tapes, which essentially allowed me the opportunity to listen to more music and music makers that In could have possibly afforded when I was a schooling teenager, where I have to literally save $$$ from my lunches, to cobble up to spend in the tapes, and even thought, it was a crap shoot on WHO I bought. If the radio DJ spoke or mentioned either the band or song, that would've been a bonus for me to somehow figure out or track down the tapes. There was no Internet, there was no online searches or music portals nor YouTube, but music magazines that make no sound LOL
Has anyone not from my generation, in Singapore, seen these "3 Tapes for $5"? Is anyone interested at all to see them? Well, I still have (some) of them, and will hopefully share images of them, before I hawk them off at the coming vintage flea market I would be vending them off (read more HERE) :p
#TOYSREVIL will be vending @ #TheRetroFactory Vintage Flea Market (Katong Square Indoor Atrium) Dec 20-22, 2024! Besides affordable toys, I will also be offering music tapes (I do not know if they still work tho :p)
— toysrevil (@toysrevil) December 13, 2024
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On another totally different tangent: When I had my Stroke in 2010, I'd purchase a walking cane to assist me. I had purposefully chosen one with a "metallic pink" stick, simply because I wanted it to be recognizable, if ever I dropped it or lost it. "Did you see that shiny pink cane?"
And for added "Identity", for when I brought and used the walking stick when I went overseas, I made and stuck a TOYSREVIL sticker on it! Not that anyone wants to see that walking cane, but I still have it, and cannot bear to throw it away, for fear of: If ever I needed to use it again, I won't be throwing $$$ away (LOL), and if someone else needed the use of a walking cane, I have it, and it helped me navigate my path for quite sometime, before I need not needed it when I could walk on my own.
Yes, I am a unwavering sentimental person struggling with pragmatism, surrounded by the hoard of my past, memories faded by hanging by the edge of my consciousness ... brain overflowing and unable to digest new thoughts and experiences, perhaps...? LOL
"Whatever", folks. I am now subscribed to youtube.com/@RickBeato, cheers.
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