Hindsight is 20/20. It is one of the inalienable facts of life, and it makes it possible to be smart after the fact, which is of course one of life's great pleasures. Allow us, then, to be slightly indulgent. Imagine you were pressed into nominating a single era that influenced the music industry's transition toward the modern model; a constellation of loosely affiliated and self-sustaining individualist brands (looking at you, Ye) that occasionally design to record and release some music. The answer, we offer smugly, would be the eighties. %
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