...download away! Because modern music recordings "ain't worth nothin' anyway". Speaking with Rolling Stone*, Dylan laments the quality of recordings:
"Brian Wilson, he made all his records with four tracks, but you couldn't make his records if you had a hundred tracks today. We all like records that are played on record players, but let's face it, those days are gon-n-n-e. You do the best you can, you fight that technology in all kinds of ways, but I don't know anybody who's made a record that sounds decent in the past twenty years, really. You listen to these modern records, they're atrocious, they have sound all over them. There's no definition of nothing, no vocal, no nothing, just like -- static. Even these songs probably sounded ten times better in the studio when we recorded 'em. CDs are small. There's no stature to it. I remember when that Napster guy came up across, it was like, 'Everybody's gettin' music for free.' I was like, 'Well, why not? It ain't worth nothing anyway.' ". . .
Well, Bob, I'll be there waiting for Modern Times on CD... But is it format or recording method? I.e., how about that fogey-friendly limited edition LP they always do? Is that better? full interview... (interweb version: the feckers are making you buy the mag to read the rest). You can't hate Modern Times that much Bob, not if you're referencing Alicia Keyes...
But what format do we think Bob reckons sounds best? I'm thinking that he's an 8-track kind of a guy...
*also cribbed via the BBC.
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