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As someone who was a teenager in the 60's (I turned 19 in 1969), I can tell you it was a wonderful era. Yes, there were problems, but it really felt like there was a real possibility we were going to work together and solve all those problems. There was also a lot less fear and anxiety in everyday life. The music (Beatles, Beach Boys, Doors, Dylan, Jefferson Airplane, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, etc. etc. etc.) was constantly new and evolving, the women were awesome, proud of their newly found "liberation", and everyone was trying in some way to find a serene sprituality. Sadly, the ideals of the 60' were not fully realized, but they were and still are wonderful ideals. And, oh yeah, we walked on the MOON!

This is such a wonderful project. Thanks, and keep up the GREAT work! Next, the One Click Purchase!

There are musical and phlosophical ideas that can only be expressed as an album. Sgt. Pepper, The Wall, Dark Side of the Moon, The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway, Forever Changes, and many, many more are much greater than the sum of their parts. Also, no one mentioned a particular quality of albums: when listened to over and over, that sometimes the song that you didn't like so much, after 10 or 50 listenings, becomes the greatest song ever! It just takes your mind a while to get used to it and digest it. The mp3 sound quality issue also concerns me greatly. Sacrificing quality for quantity is hard for me, and now that almost all songs are engineered to sound better on the radio and as mp3s, the whole concept of quality audio seems to be gone. "I can fit 1000 songs on my iWhatever, and they all sound like crap!"