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Well, I don't think you can use technology (though you're right about the Razr) as a corollary for music, because tech has function whereas music has form. Art doesn't need to progress to meet the needs of society to nearly as great an extent as technology, although it at times does. I can't escape the feeling that songs like A Change is Gonna Come or Vietnam Song wouldn't have remotely the same effect if they'd come out in 1995. You might argue that effect doesn't influence appreciation but I would argue that they're almost the same thing. To each his own.