Are many and necessary,
they start with the advertising pressure
it takes for the modern consumer
to find out about this or that new release,
where the advertising takes on the aspect
of being a fire hose to grab the attention
of the public, where there no fire to put out.
Much more a surfeit of choice and product
to blast to one side, where once people
lived well and knew more, with far less.
The less said about the practically infinite
hours of digital and cable television
full of repeats and adverts the better.
Then in the music world with the advent
of veteran artists from times past who left
hour upon hour of rehearsal recordings
that were never meant for public consumption,
and live recordings that long after the event
only the most devoted know about.
These recordings are no longer allowed
the cache of being collectable as bootlegs
but get collected in multi-CD sets, some
with up to thirty CDs in them, all remastered
and sold with a book, for a small kings ransom.
All this when the more mature way
to appreciate the artist for who they were
is read an insightful biography of them.
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