The Days Of Re-Discovering An Old Album Are Slowly Dwindling

The other night I was looking at videos on YouTube (the only place you can really see videos anymore), when I came across a song that I had not heard in awhile. It was a Nine Inch Nails Song called Burn and it is one of my all time favorites. Immediately I ran to the room where I keep all of my cd's (collecting dust of course) and began to search for all the NIN that I had. To make a long story short the song Burn was on the Natural Born Killers soundtrack, a film by Oliver Stone about a pair of serial killers starring Woody Harrelson and Juliette Lewis (if you haven't seen it, it's certainly worth one watch, but not more than that), and also happened to be a cd that I owned. However after spending a good twenty minutes it was nowhere to be found. Disappointed that it had seemingly been misplaced I turned my attention to a disc that I had ignored for sometime. Stuck in between Pearl Jam's first album Ten and Public Enemy's Fear Of A Black Planet was a Super Furry Animals cd called Phantom Power, an album from the early 2000's that I consider to be their best. I pulled it out and immediately opened it up and popped it into my laptop for a listen. What memories. At some point a few years back I had upgraded my iPod from the original model to a much beefier 60 gig because I just needed it. The SFA album had been previously on my older iPod but in the transition I had not transferred it over to my new one. I thought new technology was supposed to make things easier? Anyway after listening to the album back and forth to work today I realized just how much I missed these songs and that if I didn't own the cd I may have never come across this record ever again. I just think it is too darn easy to skim your music collection on your computer without any emotional connection. When I pulled out that cd I remembered exactly when and where I bought it. When and where I used to listen to it as well as the guy who I used to work with that introduced me to Super Furry Animals back in 2002. Now I am not saying that these feelings aren't possible anymore if we all completely move to the more convenient digital format, I am just saying that the emotions associated with our music are being altered forever and we have all lost something in the transition. That sucks.