How Music Has Changed

I remember spending hours in used record stores, looking for albums with cool-looking bands, or obscure stuff from the '60s and '70s.  I used to stay up late at night with a radio, trying to receive far-away stations or hear a song I'd been waiting for.  Seems like when it was cloudy, I could get WLS out in Chicago, and I lived in Charlotte, NC.  This was of course with a regular am/fm tuner.  I think the clouds made the signal spread out instead of go up, but I am not a physicist, so I am not sure about that.  I was just having the thought about why I never buy music, and I think it's because there's no need to.  If there is some song I have in my head, I can just go on You Tube and see it.  This is great for me, but not for the artist.  It is so easy to get music now, whereas in the old days, you had to buy a record yourself or copy it from a friend.  Some stuff was out of print and you couldn't even find it in a used record store.  Someone would have a beat up and scratchy vinyl LP that they kept making copies of, and even the tapes had the popping sounds from the needle on the record.  I could listen to some records over and over, like those by Led Zeppelin, Steely Dan, and Neil Young, and never get tired of them.  Since the 1980s, there hasn't been any music I like enough to listen to the whole album (or most of it) over and over again, with the exception of Prince's "Musicology".  Right after it came out, I heard it from beginning to end.  It had a profound effect on me.  Other than that, no music has had such an effect on me in my adult years.  Maybe it's because music affects teenagers more.  Sounds plausible.