#TBT: The Album is Dead. Long Live the Album
- DATE: March 2, 2017
- POSTED BY: Jim McCarthy
Happy #TBT. In light of the fact U2 is going to tour 1987’s The Joshua Tree in honor of the album’s 30th anniversary, we thought we’d share this oldie-but-goodie post from Jim: The Album is Dead. Long Live the Album. The album is dead. I agree with many observers who say that the future of a collection of songs packaged up as a single commercial product pressed onto plastic or even encoded into MP3s with the expectations of significant sales is a …