CD VS DOWNLOAD VS VINYL VS PAPER VS PLASTIC VS SPY VS SPY…

Back when I was a kid, the way you listened to music was very simple; you popped a 45 (or 78) rpm “single” onto a record changer, and played it over and over until you simply wore the thing out. Once in awhile, you’d save up enough money to get a (new or used) record album with the first song on each side usually being the “best’ or most important. As I got older, the singles got put away, and I would spend my evening hours listening in 15-20 minute intervals to music ranging from The Temptations to Santana, sometimes stacking 3-4 albums on the rack for continuous play of up to an hour. Besides listening to the music, you could while away the hours staring at the cool album cover and read the liner notes, learning in depth information about the musicians featured on the album. Meanwhile, my friends and I would dream of the day someone would invent a turntable that could automatically flip the album to side two without any assistance, but that seemed far fetched to have that much straight music.

Fast forward (a term created in the days of VHS and cassette tapes) a couple decades and “voila!” my friend Clay comes to my house twirling a small silver disc on his finger. “This thing holds up to 75 minutes, and you WON’T believe the sound,” he boasted. “What’s even better, is that you can’t wear it out; they say you can throw it like a Frisbee and it will still play.” While that claim didn’t exactly pan out, you couldn’t argue with the sound quality (most of the time) or for the fact that you could put a ton of music on a single compact disc, sometimes putting two old albums on one single cd. This seemed like manna from heaven! You had great music, with unbelievable sound, and you still had the cool liner notes, although anything longer than 2 pages required a pliers to get them out of those funky jewel cases. Also, the album artwork wasn’t as trend setting; who would frame a 4×4 postcard?

For the past 20 years, digital downloads have slowly taken over as the way the majority of people get their music. Instead of holding a physical product, which needed book cases to hold, an entire album collection the size of the Tower Records (which has now closed down) could be kept in a tiny hand held device. The musical world was at  your fingertips, and you could actually have, as comedian Robert Klein once joked “Every sound ever recorded.”

But as in all “solutions,” there was a cost. The plethora of music has arguably diminished our comprehension of it. All of the songs, as well as jazz instrumental solos, that I have memorized came when I played one song over and over on an album; I’ve never taken the time to concentrate on an entire downloaded album and “get into” it like I did with my singles and 40” lps. Also, there is minimal if any literature involved on a download. Just who these musicians are and what they are doing takes much more effort to decipher. As Tolstoy wrote, “it was the best of times and the worst of times.”

What we’ve done here is try to get as many perspectives of this musical obstacle course from as many different sources as possible. In this article, you’ll find the same questions answered by musicians (Lisa Hilton and Larry Koonse), a record producer and label owner (Mike Cuscuna of Mosaic Records and Larry Koonse of Jazz Compass), a jazz historian/journalist (Marc Myers of Why Jazz Happened), a deejay (Mark Maxwell of KPFK), a record/cd store owner (Steve Mintz of Bagatelle Records) and even a jazz fan (Angela Johnson, just graduated college student). So, you’re getting a perspective from just about every angle that’s out there, sort of like a jazz version of Rashomon.

A LOVE SUPREME: PERSUANCE

The first question that has to be asked is simply “Who is buying which kind of music medium?” About half the people now purchase downloads, a close second is those who still prefer compact discs and there are still those geocentrists who believe that vinyl is the best way to appreciate music. Cuscuna, who sells gold standard cd and vinyl reissues via Mosaic records states, “No idea really on any of this
except to say that jazz and classical are at the bottom of the list interms of downloads. They should improve as more quality listeners buy high end servers and as more high def downloads become available.”  Guitarist Larry Koonse agrees, “Age ranges of 40 years on up prefer classical and jazz and nostalgic R&B (vinyl/analog/CD’s) ….. 30-40 years prefer pop music from their teens and early 20’s (CD’s/digital downloads) …. under 30 years prefer whatever the flavor of the month is (digital downloads). All of these have major deviations of course.”

 

Maxwell gives a reason for this demograph, stating “”People who are baby boomers and who aren’t computer-savvy buy both jazz records and jazz CDs. However, the Millennials basically only purchase records.They, as a group, as buyer block, don’t buy CDs. Most of them are downloading music either through Itunes, MP3 players or are file sharing with their fellow friends over the Internet. They like the convenience of Ipods, the convenience of having music on their computers. If you witness a lot of youth, they are always carrying phones and  Ipods. Or when they’re at home they’re at their computers and that’s where the music is. Also, they’re in this mentality of getting music for free. What I mean by that is that there is this generation that happened when the Ipods and MP players and file sharing was going on, they didn’t have to pay for music. I think the reason why they are buying records albums is that they see the LP records as maybe an artifact. Also, they’ve been told that the sound quality of records is superior to CD formats.  But I feel that the reality is that they’ve been getting their music downloaded off of Itunes, file sharing and everything over the internet and they have narrow band with of the various music being sold to them. And so when they hear a record and compare it a download, the ambiance on an analog record is much more exuberant, full, rich and diverse. Because of the narrow band with, a download doesn’t have all the nuances that a record, or even for that matter that a good CD has. Although a good CD may be sterile compared to an analog, meaning it doesn’t have a warmth to it, but it has crisp music,  which still gives a great ambiance. The Millenials equate a CD to same thing that they would download from a friend, but they don’t really realize that a good CD, whether it’s Jazz, classical, rock n’ roll, has great highs on it far superior to any download.”

” I have heard that they are now downloading high end audio tracks that you have to pay a premium for. It hasn’t been widespread. One of my customers who is an audiophile told me that there is certain music that has been downloaded over the internet that has a wider broadband.”

 

A LOVE SUPREME: ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

 

As economist Thomas Sowell points out, choices do not consist of solutions, but of trade offs. One type of music offers something the other doesn’t, but to the loss of something else. I myself back in my 20s (although albums were the medium of choice) used to love the feel of a scratchy 78 spinning around like a top, and I noticed that I would pay closer attention to the music when I had only 3 minutes before personally changing the records. The surfeit of music that is available can be overwhelming, but it sure sounds good! What are the advantages of each mode of music?

While all people connected with music are fans at heart, the only “pure” fan and consumer, Angela chimes in, “the obvious advantage to digital is that it is portable. With an iTunes account you can download an album and have that album on your phone, iPod, computer…etc. if your phone gets stolen you don’t have to worry about all your music being lost because it is on your computer or backed up on the cloud. The downside that I have personally noticed is that music gets lost in the jumble. I often forget about albums I have because I continually play the same stuff. With cd’s I would play more of a random mix of CDs because the simple act of flipping through a case of CDs shows you what you have and don’t have. It’s visible and tangible. The downsides to CDs are they get broken, scratched, lost, take up a lot of space and are more expensive.” Cuscuna, who has a vested interest in what the public desires, agrees, “ Well, downloads are portable and go wherever you go, but the sound is the worst of all the possibilities. Vinyl is the best sounding, but putting a stylus to a vinyl record does ultimately result in wear that you don’t get on a CD and it takes the most effort in caring for the LPs and having to get up every 20 minutes during listening.”

Marc Myers offers an intriguing  perspective here, “I listen to music differently than most people. Since I’m writing about music all day for the Wall Street Journal, JazzWax and book projects, being able to hear what’s being done on the album is far more important that every single detail in the recording. In  my office, I run my iTunes library through a DAC Benchmark digital-to-analog converter, which then runs into an Amcom integrated receiver and out through B&W monitor speakers. So my system is higher end. But I’m not listening with my feet up and a the backs of my fingers under my chin.” 

“Downloads are convenient. The downside is that most are mp3s that lack some of the energy and excitement of CDs. I still have LPs and play them, but the sheer inconvenience of the LP makes them difficult to enjoy. With iTunes, music plays on and on and I never have to become involved with the physical aspect of turning over the vinyl. An LP certainly sounds warmer—more mellow and colorful, if you will. But given that music has become a secondary sound rather than a primary listen—meaning most people now listen to music while doing other things—I’m not sure it matters any longer.”

 

Hilton recalls the days of giant speakers and says “the answer is that ipod quality is  pretty bad – especially when blasted through speakers.  But we have embraced convenience over quality with the ipod so we can carry our music with us.  There is of course, a big audiophile movement – my duplication house is doing more vinyl than CD’s currently.  Why can’t we enjoy both?  A Macintosh turntable at home, and an ipod for the gym?  All good.”

 

“The biggest issue in music today is not about the current formats, but about the royalty structures in radio.  We all know internet radio is the future, but composers get paid (count the zeros) .00003 per play.  It is amazing how much time and work it takes to create music, when it essentially is consumed for free everywhere.  Copyright issues are also very pertinent today too.  Very big challenges that very dedicated lawyers will need to guide us through.”

 

“I think that we will continue to consume music in an ever broadening fashion – which is great- with greater ease and flexibility.  Beyond that is anybody;s guess!”

MY FAVORITE THINGS

Some people can enjoy an album like Blues And The Abstract Truth as deeply on a cassette tape as on an audiophile album with $500 speakers. For others the slightest diminution of sound quality ruins the listening experience. For myself, it didn’t matter what equipment my player had as the noise produced by teenage kids took away any sense of personal ambience during a free hour to listen to music; the van was my jazz concert hall. I had a friend that sprayed each vinyl album with an invisible material that was guaranteed to take away any sounds of static. Albums like “Mingus Ah Um” sure did sound fantastic on his system, but you have to be a bachelor to afford/enjoy it. Where do the rest of us fit in with the sound quality issue?

Deejay Maxwell brings his experiences from the radio into play here,”

“There have been a few times when I’ve played an LP and I really wanted to play it and unfortunately the record was not in the greatest condition and it was a little scratchy. And I get very self conscious when that happens. Several times I’ve mentioned it, apologizing on air for the condition of the record. It’s interesting. Several times when I’ve done that people have called and said, ‘Oh, it’s no problem. I actually kind of like hearing surface noise.’ Which kind of people speaks to the fact that if people came up listening to vinyl there are certain things that are just part of the experience. If you enjoy the music, a lot of times you start to enjoy the other stuff that comes with it. And so a little surface noise will actually kind enlist a positive response from people, which I kind of find fascinating.

 “There is definitely a lot of nostalgic, non scientific stuff going on. And that’s fine. The way society deals with music, we like a subjective experience. In other words, we don’t like things to necessarily be scientific about music. We want it to be left brain, right brain, whatever side of the brain is supposed to be your creative side, we like things to be that way when we are dealing with music. And so  we tend not to overanalyze. Is this really a  better sound or not? We tend to go with our emotions. We think back to the time we listened to an album or whatever and that was a good time, and so we like albums. That happens a lot. There are people who are more audiophiles, but that’s a whole another ball of wax.”

 

Johnson, who listens to music either casually at home as background music to studying or driving to and from school or work points out “There is an obvious difference between download and cd vs vinyl. With download and cd being digital you don’t get that “Je ne said quo” that comes with Vinyl. Vinyl has an earthy soulful sound that is irreplaceable with modern technology. Personally, i don’t notice a difference between a downloaded cd and hard copy cd, except when my cd gets scratched, then I notice a HUGE difference. They are both digitally recorded one is played digitally one is read. So essentially the same.”

 

Even people in the music industry like musicians are still fans at heart, since they started out as lovers of the music before they took up an instrument. Larry Koonse states “ There is a definite difference between vinyl and either digital format (CD or digital download). I still like to listen to analog versions of songs because a part of me still thinks they sound warmer. I’m not sure if I’m delusional. I also like the hisses and pops present when listening to a vinyl record. No perceivable difference between CD’s and digital downloads.”
Cuscuna, whose jazz reissue Mosaic Records label prides itself on sound quality believes  “There is a major difference in sound between these different mediums. A download is the most compressed with the lowest bit rate and sounds the least impressive (high def downloads are another story and soon to have an impact on the scene). CDs are limited by 16 bit and a relatively small sampling rate because they were introduced prematurely before the medium was really perfected. SACDs are a vast improvement because they are 24 bit with a much higher sampling rate. A 24/96 or 24/192 sound file is VERY close to vinyl in warmth and detail but without the downsides of vinyl.  Of course, discussing sound quality by delivery system does not take into account that an engineer can screw up or enhance a recording in any medium. There are many factors involved.”

Maxwell considers all of these factors when he says “My opinions as far as the qualitative properties of each format as not as strong as they were in the past. I definitely see bigger differences that have more to do with the psychology of the listener. Meaning, there are things that are extra musical, outside of the music and outside of the audio quality that have us gravitate towards the different formats, and they are all valid. For example, just because of my age I grew up listening to records. The sound of recorded music to me is the sound of a record. You have to master music a certain way when you’re mastering it for an LP. If you have too much low frequency you’re going to make the cutting lathe, the head, jump out of the grooves when you’re actually trying to manufacture the acitape. And so you have to cut a certain amount of low end and that affects the sound. If you grew up hearing that and you become accustomed to it, and you hear that sound you think, Aaah, that is what a recording is supposed to sound like. Whereas CDs don’t have that particular limitation and so they have a different sound. And if it is not what is normal for you for most of your life, you may prefer the LP. I don’t know on an objective level if an LP is better. But on a subjective level that may be the case. As far as MP3s are concerned, I think you can get pretty objective about there being a lesser quality. But it has other pluses going for it. MP3s are a conscious compromise in sound in order to make the file size small enough to upload, download easily, send to the Internet, get onto your listening device, whether it’s an Ipod, smart phone or whatever. It’s a compressed format. The tradeoff is that you lose audio information. That’s part of the deal. It’s got its place but if I’m a producer and we get a rough mix of something, and the singer that’s going to sing on the album is not local, I can just email him/her an MP3 so they can get idea how the tune sounds and practice for when they come in for the recording session. The highest fidelity is not really an issue for them at that stage of the game. And so an MP3 makes a lot more sense instead of Fed Exing a CD. And so, there’s a place for MP3s.”

 

Maxwell points out that on his radio program “”There have been a few times when I’ve played an LP and I really wanted to play it and unfortunately the record was not in the greatest condition and it was a little scratchy. And I get very self conscious when that happens. Several times I’ve mentioned it, apologizing on air for the condition of the record. It’s interesting. Several times when I’ve done that people have called and said, ‘Oh, it’s no problem. I actually kind of like hearing surface noise.’ Which kind of people speaks to the fact that if people came up listening to vinyl there are certain things that are just part of the experience. If you enjoy the music, a lot of times you start to enjoy the other stuff that comes with it. And so a little surface noise will actually kind enlist a positive response from people, which I kind of find fascinating.”

 

“There is definitely a lot of nostalgic, non scientific stuff going on. And that’s fine. The way society deals with music, we like a subjective experience. In other words, we don’t like things to necessarily be scientific about music. We want it to be left brain, right brain, whatever side of the brain is supposed to be your creative side, we like things to be that way when we are dealing with music. And so  we tend not to overanalyze. Is this really a  better sound or not? We tend to go with our emotions. We think back to the time we listened to an album or whatever and that was a good time, and so we like albums. That happens a lot. There are people who are more audiophiles, but that’s a whole another ball of wax.”

 

 

 

 

 

 

Mintz, who owns a store that sells cds and vinyl points out a difference between the types of customers who purchase the different media. Is everyone concerned about sound quality?  “Some are and some aren’t. For those people who grew up with good sound systems, back in the day a sound system was almost like having a muscle car. You would want to have a muscle stereo system. We’re only as good as our weakest link,  meaning whether it’s the receiver, the cables, the amplifier, the speakers.  Back in the day I can remember growing up we would go to our buddies’ house and almost joust–let’s go to my house and hear what this sounds like on my stereo. Or if you were having a party, so-and-so had to bring their stereo system or their reel-to-reel tape player.”

 SAY IT OVER AND OVER AGAIN

Which brings up another point about vinyl, cd and downloading; besides quality, there is an actual QUANTITATIVE difference in today’s music. Back in the day, an artist might release 1-3 albums, but each one was 25-45 minutes long, divided into two sides, and usually 4-8 songs per release. A double album was a bid deal, and NO ONE ever did a triple album. Nowadays, 60-76 minutes is de rigueur for a jazz release. Do we really need an album of 5 twelve minute tunes or 12 five minute songs? How much is too much before the listener overloads and can’t even take it all in? Do the different formats actually ad to or detract from the initial point of appreciating the actual music?

Myers does not think it’s a major issue in one sense but a major point on another. “I think most people rip their CDs into their iTunes, so it’s a moot point. The convenience of iTunes has made it much more practical to listen to them that way. The place where I do listen to CDs is when I rent a car on assignment. In those cases, I often listen to the music of artists I’m about to interview or I listen to what I call my “driving music”—the same albums that give me enormous pleasure. These include the Average White Band’s first album, Marvin Gaye’s “What’s Going On,” Jerry Lee Lewis’ “Mean Old Man” and Sonny Rollins’ “Sound of Sonny.” So to answer your question, the number of minutes in a CD is meaningless. The big change is that people no longer listen to music together, which was and is one of the joys in life. Everything is isolated and individual, through white headphones. The collective, social qualities of listening to music have become lost. Personally, I think LPs are a pain in the neck. So the traditional length of LPs were restrictive both for the musician and producer and the listener. It created parameters that, of course, forced music to fit certain criteria. So the producer no longer make much sense—since he or she is no longer figuring out how to make everything fit to make a commercial statement. Maybe that’s a good thing. I don’t know.”

 

Hilton doesn’t consider the time issue a factor, but “ I think the best running time is 48-60 minutes personally.  The format has never had a bearing on what makes a great “album” to me.”

Koonse sees it a bit differently, “I don’t like sitting and listening to music for more than 30 minutes …. unless its live. That’s a different ballgame. So much more dimension in seeing an artist weave their magic in that context. Its not the same when listening in my living room.”Cuscuna, on the other hand, sees the this as a major issue as well “I do think the 75 minute CD has diluted the quality of music. First of all, it encourages musicians to fill up every possible minute by adding lesser music or by allowing musicians to play too long. Music in the CD era almost quadrupled because a 40 minute LP was really two 20-minute listening experience. Each side was paced a presented that way. 75 minutes in most cases asks too much of the listener and provides too much temptation for artists.”

Think about it yourself; when was the last time you really, REALLY got into a single song and understood every nuance of it? Is there a song from the digital era that you’ve done that with? I STILL Lester Young’s solo to “Lady Be Good” veering in the backstreets of my mind, as well as Miles Davis’ solos on “Four” or “Blues By Five.” Can any of you claim that to a tune from the past 10 years?

GOOD BAIT

Since the goal of a recording is to get listened to, is there a difference of listenability and ease of access between the various media? Is the music appreciated differently depending on how you take it in? Cuscuna brings a perspective in when he states “I think everything since the Walkman has contributed to people wanting to carry their music with them wherever they go. That makes music more ubiquitous, but also make the experience of hearing music more common and less focused. If you don’t sit down to listen to music with full attention, you are relegating it to background noise. It never fails when I try to multitask. If I put on CD and start answering my emails, I realize an hour later that I had not heard a note of that music. Music is everywhere but less special.

Koonse also feels that there’s less excitement about a new release when he says “Easy access to digital music has made it less special. Not like waiting for that new Coltrane record out anymore. The whole library of recorded music can be accessed in a heartbeat.” The sole consumer, Angela has noticed that “Music can be bought and spread faster than ever with digital downloads. Therefore artists are demanded to produce music faster and have a wider range of sounds with the use of computers and various recording devices. I think that people listen to music more now than ever because they can bring it with them. It is portable and diverse.”

“How music is appreciated is a whole different story. I think that people like certain songs because a radio station plays them endlessly and then by default like it. More and more people have become music aficionados because the song can be spread quicker and found easily. Unfortunately, the general public doesnt appreciate music for its sheer artistry and bands become popular based how often they are aired on a tv show or commercial”. 

IMPRESSIONS

Does the download tech have the potential to actually affect the style of jazz itself? Does the lack of an album cover and liner notes, endless time format, and the way the music is absorbed have an influence on the product itself?

Historian/author Myers doesn’t’ think so. “(It)  Makes no difference. No one has time to read them anymore anyway. Everyone is too busy.And many liner notes from the LP era, when you re-read them today, sound old fashioned and stilted. Writing, like music, has evolved. Readers expect writing to be faster, more surprising and dramatic. Writing, in many respects, was both easier and harder back then. Easier in that standards were lower. Harder in that writers toiled away on typewriters, they lacked fast research resources and had to rely on flowery writing to fill the space. The decline of album cover design is unfortunate, however, since many of the albums you pick up from the 50s and 60s had a mystique, an energy and a grace that’s missing today. William Claxton, for example, used to show up with a camera and take pictures. Today, photographers need hours of time with lighting assistants, makeup people, etc. Music today is recorded digitally, so there’s greater opportunity to tune up and manipulate what you hear. I have no problem with any of it. My only beef is when the cymbals of a drum set sound metallic or there’s lots of “wow” surrounding each hit of the brass. Music no longer has the warm clarity and distinction it once did. But I’m not sure it’s that matters any more beyond a point. Convenience and access have become paramount.”

 As a musician, Koonse does not feel a change in recording has had an effect on his performance “It has not changed my notion of how to present my art in terms of an album (old word) of related songs.”

I WANT TO TALK ABOUT YOU

But the fact that you can purchase a single song via mp3 as opposed to previously having access to a song by getting the entire album via vinyl or cd has to have some sort of an impact on the industry. Also, what about the social meda? Back in the days of old you learned of an artist either through a friend, a record store worker or the radio. Now, you can get suggestions via amazon or other nameless entities. Does this affect the music industry, and jazz in particulary?

Cuscuna states “I don’t think social media really affects finding new artists at all. We find artist the way we always did – by listening to the recommendations of musicians. For the fan, as you say, it used to be a store clerk or local radio. Now it’s newspapers and NPR and jazz blogs.  Unless you love Miley Cyrus or Justin Beiber, I don’t think social madia means a goddamn thing. However, apps may grow to be a major way to market and expose new music. I don’t know what if anything posted reviews mean. “

Johnson, the only one here who everyone else in this article is focused toward, says “sometimes I just download a song for a workout mix or something like that. But usually I download the whole cd because I believe the artist made the music in the whole album for a reason and wants to show me something. Otherwise if I downloaded only the “hit song” I might have missed out on an even better .song. personally I still find out about bands through the radio or recommendations from friends. With social media and apps such as spotify you can see what a friend is listening to and check it out for yourself. I have found great unknown bands that way. I actually have never bought music based on amazons reviews. 
Johnson also confesses “in college I downloaded everything from someone else because I was poor. Now I buy everything I listen to. Occasionally a friend will burn me a cd because they think I will like something or ill put it on my iPod from their computer. But 9 times out of 10 I buy it.”

A LOVE SUPREME: RESOLUTION

So, with all of these choices with their myriad of implications, which mode is preferable?

Myers opines “ all three for different reasons. If I’m sitting down to listen to music and want a woody feel, I put on LPs. If i’m in a car, I listen to CDs. If I’m working and researching, I listen to iTunes and have no problem downloading. Like clothing, music has become about the event. Jeans are easy, chinos if I have to get a little dressed up and a suit if it’s business. I love all three styles.”

Johnson is also ecumenical in her taste,” personally, I can’t say I have a preference. I lean towards digital for the sheer simplicity of it. But do tend to bust out my old CDs because I never put them on my computer. Only my dad owned a record player so I never bought vinyls for myself.” Koonse concurs, stating “ I like them all. Digital downloads for easy access, CD’s for the artwork and actually holding a product in my hand, and vinyl for the nostalgia.” Cuscuna is in the same boat, finding preferences and advantages to each system, as he says “Well, downloads are portable and go wherever you go, but the sound is the worst of all the possibilities. Vinyl is the best sounding, but putting a stylus to a vinyl record does ultimately result in wear that you don’t get on a CD and it takes the most effort in caring for the LPs and having to get up every 20 minutes during listening.”

For myself I’ve tried to enjoy the download era, but the lack of something tangible to associate with the music is a double edged sword. My wife loves the fact that our house will no longer look like a store room for cds, and the idea of having an entire collection that is in the palm of your hand is appealing, except for the fear that your entire life of music can be lost in one cup of water. Vinyl does have a warm sound, and the folder-gate type holders are still one of the greatest contributions to Western Civilization, but the constant worry of scratches and warps, as well as never sharing music with someone who has an inferior stylus does have its drawbacks. I must confess that the period in which I most attentively listened to jazz was when I went through my dad’s old 78s and went through a period of putting these vintage discs on. When you’ve got to change the record every 3 minutes, you can’t let your mind wander. Besides, it warmed my heart to learn that my dad was into Coleman Hawkins with Howard McGhee and Earl Hines with Billy Eckstine. My dad was a hipster!!!

Which brings us back to the cd, so tenuous in its popularity. Is it a transition device like the 78 and the 45 rpm? Will its best use eventually be for scaring birds away from fruit trees? It’s impossible to predict the future.

The best factor about all of these choices is the obvious one that no one had mentioned; WE HAVE MUSIC TO LISTEN TO! What a true gift from God! As it says “Everything good is from God above,” and music is one of the unmistakable proofs of a benevolent God and a life worth living. The fact that we have these choices is similar to walking around a food mart with selections of the finest meals known to mankind. Find out your tastes by experimenting, grab the fork and enjoy to your hearts delight!!!

By Ollie Bivins and George Harris

 

Spy vs Spy is a copyright from MAD Magazine. What me worry?

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