If that doesn’t push your buttons a little bit, then I don’t know how big a fan of music you are. This ethos recalls a time gone by, when we thought about things like half-speed mastering, diamond needled turntables and the warm glow of tube amplifiers which cost as much as a ne...
could be seen as one culmination of the long-developing privatization of media consumption. For more than a century, scholars and critics have been fretting about how radio, phonographs, and later TV allowed people to consume culture in the privacy of their own home, undermining...