"[W]e started talking about the fact that our kids listen to a lot of the same music that we do. Because music has become so flat and because there’s, you know, 50 years of it available on the web, and because you don’t actually always know when the music you like was recorded — you just know that you like it, here’s something and it’s fun — that music no longer becomes the cultural divide that it used to be…."

Neil Gaiman, quoted in this interview.

The decline of mass media and the rise of digital distribution means that music is not only splintering across audience, but it’s splintering across time; listeners are cratediggers as a matter of course.