Remember listening?

Recalling the initial wonder of the iPod ("If you had presented me with this gadget even a decade ago, I'm pretty sure I would have proclaimed you the Messiah") and lamenting its devaluation of the musical experience, Steve Almond writes, "I really miss the fact that listening to music used to be a concerted sonic and emotional event, rather than the backing track to some flashing screen." Almond's commentary in The Los Angeles Times:

http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-almond26-2010mar26,0,5330405.story