The internet takes another victim...my mother

[michaelb]

It was a good and interesting piece on NPR and I liked your mother's stories about the kinds of questions that people would call her and ask.

I am not at all an expert in the music industry and economy and would never listen to or buy polka myself, but I could see the "internet" as being good for obscure music like Polka. I wouldn't have access to that music if I was forced to shop in local stores. The cost of production and distribution of music online has to be so much cheaper and simpler then pressing vinyl or a CD. 20 years from now I can see subgenres like Polka still flourishing on the web.