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love - there's no restriction on music anymore. Anyone can make it -- which obviously spawns lots of bad shit, but it also means there's tons of amazing shit we'll actually hear thanks to myspace, soulseek, etc. Anyone with a computer can easily record albums now. It's nice. Also, plenty of great labels (Tzadik, Ipecac, Web of Mimicry) still release plenty of innovative records. Never to be taken for granted.
hate - The wrong bands (No Age, Be Your Own Pet, HEALTH, Deerhunter, etc.) usually get all the attention. Not that all those bands are necassarily awful, but there are plenty more amazing bands doing plenty more amazing things that never get the exposure they deserve. It's always been like that, though, and I guess in this age -- when any band is a soulseek/myspace/youtube/last.fm away -- I figured it wouldn't totally 100% be like that.
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