Don't Listen to the Luddites. Ever. 0 ▲ JD Torian 1 hour ago · Life · hide · 0 comments Today we call them Luddites and gatekeepers. But back then they were just a bunch of d*cks. For me, I listened to music in the '70s and '80s, and then became a teenager and found my own music (the Police). It was fine, but generally, all the classic rock people would never not let you know that their music was actually and exclusively real music. Whatever you were doing at the time, and listening to, was just not it. (With a little pat on the head.) (Kansas? Really?) The amount of this in both listening to music and the way music is played and consumed and made is so rampant, and it has always been like this. It will always be like this. I don't know whether it's a good thing that more music is being listened to, but it's absolutely a fact, given Spotify, YouTube, and Apple Music. So many more people are listening all the time. I don't know whether that is a good thing or a bad thing. Who knows if anyone knows. What I do know is that it's easier for people to find your music, no… No comments yet. Log in to reply on the Fediverse. Comments will appear here.