As so much of our day to day lives becomes commercialized, commodicized, and corporately packaged, consolidated and bundled, just as it is getting hard to find 'real' food, 'real' workmanship, anything built to last longer than our well researched minimum expected lifespan, expecting music to return to a pre-corporate paradigm is a pipe dream at best.

For good or bad, WE made this bed (our generation WAS the ones who jumped enthusiastically into sequencers, MIDI, arrangers and other forms of making music without a full band), and now we must lie in it.