[afterthefact]

There is a good and bad side to it, as there is to everything.

The good side of it is that with ALL of the available music out there, and with the internet making it available for FREE at the click of a mouse, you can find something that fits exactly what you want, as long as you are willing to look through it all.

The bad side to it is that we are flooded with art, music included. Just as everybody thinks they are an artist now because they made some stencils and spray painted a wall a la Banksy, everybody thinks they are not only musicians, but musicians who need to be heard, based simply on the fact that they CAN be heard.

Finding good music used to be like a needle in a haystack. Now it's more like a diamond ring in a boggy marsh. If you are willing to look, you are able to find something far greater than you used to be. Unfortunately you have to now dig through much nastier crap to find it.