Here is a little story. It doesn’t go anywhere. It doesn’t have a start, a middle, or an end. It is simply a trickle of thoughts that I wanted to write about. I really hope that someone reads and understands it, but if not, that’s ok. — We live in an age where music and piracy are so entangled that you’d find it difficult to find evidence that the two were ever separate. And, according to folk within the music industry, this is terrible news for everyone involved.

For a little over 12 months I have been a writer, of sorts, posting new content to the nostalgia website retroist.com. During my ongoing tenure with the site I have written about all manner of oddities spawned from decades past, and it’s been a lot of fun. However, after 300…