re: Arcade Fire > anything else made in the past 15 years

I agree that the distribution channels are wildly different and there is definitely a loss in the emotional attachment to physical music, but at the same time, there are many artists out there that are still making a lot of money from physical music sales despite the prevalence of digital music / youtube. Vinyl sales have seen a healthy increase which I think can be somewhat attributable to music blogs and bands having a voice to promote physical music sales on the internet via twitter and facebook. I guess what I'm saying is, the music industry has lost some of its allure and identity that it had in the 70's as it becomes an online entity, but the internet is sort of having a healing effect to the industry now, too.