{"id":3638,"date":"2012-06-21T09:44:57","date_gmt":"2012-06-21T13:44:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wilktone.com\/?p=3638"},"modified":"2012-06-21T09:44:57","modified_gmt":"2012-06-21T13:44:57","slug":"all-songs-considered-on-owning-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wilktone.com\/?p=3638","title":{"rendered":"All Songs Considered On Owning Music"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Emily White, an intern for NPR&#8217;s All Songs Consider, has sparked some controversy with her blog post <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/blogs\/allsongs\/2012\/06\/16\/154863819\/i-never-owned-any-music-to-begin-with\">I Never Owned Any Music To Begin With<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I am an avid music listener, concertgoer, and college radio DJ. My world is music-centric. I&#8217;ve only bought 15 CDs in my lifetime. Yet, my entire iTunes library exceeds 11,000 songs.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Like White, I tend to get my music as downloads these days, rather than physical CDs. Unlike White, I actually purchase that music. She seems to miss one of the points about purchasing music and thinks that when you download it through file sharing, that&#8217;s bad, but copying a physical CD you don&#8217;t own is just fine.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>During my first semester at college, my music library more than tripled. I spent hours sitting on the floor of my\u00a0college radio station, ripping music onto my laptop. The walls were lined with hundreds of albums sent by promo companies and labels to our station over the years.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>David Lowery has a very <a href=\"http:\/\/thetrichordist.wordpress.com\/2012\/06\/18\/letter-to-emily-white-at-npr-all-songs-considered\/\">thorough response<\/a>. \u00a0The online <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/blogs\/allsongs\/2012\/06\/19\/155313212\/a-perpetual-debate-owning-music-in-the-digital-age\">debate<\/a> continues at All Songs Considered.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Emily White, an intern for NPR&#8217;s All Songs Consider, has sparked some controversy with her blog post I Never Owned Any Music To Begin With. I am an avid music listener, concertgoer, and college radio DJ. My world is music-centric. I&#8217;ve only bought 15 CDs in my lifetime. Yet, my entire iTunes library exceeds 11,000 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wilktone.com\/?p=3638\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">All Songs Considered On Owning Music<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15350306,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_wpcom_ai_launchpad_first_post":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"{title}\n\n{excerpt}\n\n{url}","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1381,1386],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music-business","category-science"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/peFHCc-WG","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilktone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3638","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilktone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilktone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilktone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/15350306"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilktone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3638"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wilktone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3638\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilktone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilktone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilktone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}