First I would like to note how glad I am to live in this day and age, where all your music, or entertainment in general really, is at your fingertips. It really comes in handy when your parents are lecturing you or when your school has an unexpected gas leak. At least you aren't sitting there trying to figure out what in God's name has your parent(s) upset this time or forced into painfully awkward small talk with someone you've barely talked to. Anyway, I think it's interesting how radios were inventented after recorded music. That probably doesn't seem like a big deal to most people, but I always thought it was the other way around. It was kinda like the chicken or the egg here. In this case the egg came first.
I thought it was cool how it worked as a cutural unifyer. Even with the newspaper there was some division because not everyone got a chance to learn how to read. With recorded music the dying, the illiterate and literate alike could have something to talk about. I never thought recorded music could have that kind of affect on a culture. The most I've seen it do is increase the amount of very unnecessary twerking and such. It's consoling to know that it's existance has not always been in vain.
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