Making important changes by 2020

“The pervasive notion among music users is that because it’s on the Internet, it should be free”

“specialty marketing isn’t a new idea … it was used generations ago by jeans manufacturers and soda pop companies like Coca Cola, which paid for the Guess Who and The Staccatos (later the Five Man Electrical Band) to record a platinum-selling promotional album in 1967.”

The above quotes are from this Dec 27, 2007 4:30 AM thestar.com post titled 2007 in Review: Music, Age of confusion. As shared on this page of foxytunes.com (which includes reference to the noted post), the Five Man Electrical Band was a Canadian rock group noted for songs like their 1972 hit “Signs”. Look within the noted page on foxytunes to the lyrics of another song —I’m a Stranger Here— by the same band. It may just make you wonder a bit more, about how much has changed over the years (since the 70’s for example), and whether things are getting better, and how much better we can make the world by working more as one to ensure important changes by 2020.