>Yes. At the risk of sounding all rockist, the most annoying thing
>about iTunes has been this emphasis on songs, the three-minute
>individual unit,
iTunes didn't invent the three minute unit. Pop radio and jukeboxes were all about three minutes well before iTunes came along.
>and abandonment of formats that let artists express
>themselves more freely.
You mean like Inagaddadavida?
>Mike Watt, he mentioned that he paid as much attention to the space
>between songs as the songs themselves.
*snork*
>iTunes completely erases spaces
>between songs.
How?
>More generally, the whole "interactive" way of participating in art
>has made us all like petulant, self-absorbed 12-year-olds.* Instead of
>accepting and grappling with the artists' presentation of things, we
>demand to structure and control exactly how we experience them
This seems overwrought to me. I still grapple with Shakespeare but I'm glad I can smash and grab Sugar Sugar and listen to it in the car later that day.