{"id":1761,"date":"2009-09-08T08:45:32","date_gmt":"2009-09-08T13:45:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/?p=1761"},"modified":"2009-09-08T08:45:32","modified_gmt":"2009-09-08T13:45:32","slug":"repostnick-hornby-on-the-liberating-effect-of-mp3-blogs-music-the-observer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2009\/09\/08\/repostnick-hornby-on-the-liberating-effect-of-mp3-blogs-music-the-observer\/","title":{"rendered":"rePost::Nick Hornby on the liberating effect of MP3 blogs | Music | The Observer"},"content":{"rendered":"

loved this from, chuck’s shared items<\/p>\n

Keeping in touch with the things that help us feel alive \u2013 music, books, movies, even the theatre<\/a>, if, mysteriously, you are that way inclined \u2013 becomes a battle, and one that many of us lose, as we get older; I don’t think enough of our cultural pundits, people who write about that stuff for a living, fully understand this. It’s one thing to have an opinion on Little Boots<\/a> remixes if you earn your living hanging about in cyberspace<\/a>; quite another if you’re a full-time teacher with three kids. My friend’s CD<\/a> shop performed a valuable service to those whose shopping and browsing and listening time was rationed by circumstance, people who had the occasional five minutes on a Saturday morning<\/a> to check out, and sometimes even buy, what everyone else was listening to.
\nvia Nick Hornby on the liberating effect of MP3 blogs | Music | The Observer<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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