assorted observations and collected inspirations.
Whenever I listen to music, I am not actually enjoying the aural experience. Instead, I am trying to figure out whether or not I endorse the product. At this point, I wouldn’t listen to a new Jay-Z and Kanye West album to just ‘lose myself’ in their art. I’m just prepping myself for a series of conversations and Facebook threads in which I look to deconstruct their product or justify its artistic merits and social relevance.
— Carles (of Hipster Runnoff) on the commodification of music, writing in the always-excellent Grantland.
