When I look at todays world I cannot help but think that people were more connected when we did not have smartphones and all this social media non-sense. Yes, we might have lost contact with some people but we regularly had phone calls or met with friends. Nowadays we are in contact with everybody via text messages but we do barely really speak to people. How often do you see people sitting on tables in cafes or other places just staring at their phones? The options to communicate have vastly increased while the quality time we spent with people has vastly decreased. If you want to stop being lonely, throw your phone away and meet with people in real life. One other reason I see is that people are more and more eaten up by their work which is required to make ends meet. If you work full time plus you have just any kind of hobby you take serious, the time to spent with friends and family becomes even less. All just so a few people get more rich.

You are absolutely right. Besides the fact, that I don't like their music, I would not buy an online album because I think they are only doing this for profit. They always have been pro-RIAA and now they see that bands can actually make money by selling their songs online they are interested. I guess someone told them, that they could make more money by selling online music because they do not depend on the whole music industry and therefore don't have to pay this giant industry anymore. If someone would show me these figures I would also announce to sell my songs online.