When it comes to rock and roll, there are no "good old days."

Today's must-read: Andy Whitman tells us to shut up about how music used to be great.

He writes:

What I don’t understand is why so few people continue to seek out new music past the tender age of, oh, say twenty five. ... Why would you ever give that up? ... What could be more stultifying, more crippling than being cut off from a source of life, and believing that the source of life is no longer available, that it is somehow unseemly and inappropriate?