2. It's Destroying Someones Future Recollection of Being Cool
You always hear someone from an older generation talking about an awesome band they got to see at their prime while they were in their youth. Like how they saw Nirvana play a dingy basement one time in 1992 or Rage Against the Machine in a hut somewhere. No matter how much of a dink or old fuddy duddy the person who is telling that story might be now, the fact that they had a cool childhood gives them inherently cooler in the present. Me personally, I cant wait to be one of those guys, regaling stories of my musical experiences to a younger generation discovering whichever band for the first time. Im under no doubt that The XX will be one of the bands we will be listening to in 20 years time with great fondness. I dont know many teenagers personally, that demographic isnt covered in my social circle but I dont recall knowing many 16 year olds when I was one who would be able to pay £40.00 to see the latest upstart band every time they came to play their town. This is a problem indicative of the whole music industry, not just The XX. Corporate greed is taking what used to be a grassroots cultural experience and turning it into what a trip to the cinema is now: expensive, overpriced and a gratuitously hollow experience.