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"What media is taking that place in the current generation?"
- Memes - Dogfort - F7u12 cartoons - Image macros The deeper meaning of the discussion makes better sense when you recognize they're not talking about "music as a thing you listen to" but about "music as a thing you sell." The Internet, reduced to its barest meaning, is "the death of middle-men." The music industry, as traditionally viewed, is nothing but a middle-man. And if youth cannot be clustered around easily marketable totems, "middle-manning" the product loses profitability.