What I hate about MP3 is not the loss of sound quality (there definitely is one, but it's acceptable in my opinion) but rather the way that music has become so disposeable as a result. Downloading, often illegally, has become so commonplace and easy that just as my generation (I am 27, born in '81) has forgotten the wonders of a vinyl LP (luckily for me my parents passed on their love) I fear that later generations will not understand the feeling of going to the ecord store on release day to buy a CD, flick through the booklet on the way home, put the disk in the player and finally press play for the first time. These days you just download, listen, get bored, skip. I myself have tons of albums on my ipod that I have rarely or never listened too - music has become cheap and disposeable.

I hope this rant makes sense. I am into my music big time so I might just be chatting traditionalist rubbish (although I am by no means anti-technology, I love computers and all that good stuff - I downloaded my first MP3 in 1996 and thought it was awesome, it's just that now downloading has become the norm I don't like the way it's going).