In fact, depending on where you house your object collections, guests don’t even have to closely inspect shelves to gain new insights about you with a mere glance at your living space. You don’t have to say a word for them to discover things about you that you might not think to mention-a taste for Sinatra or Robbie Williams, your favored method for organization, whether you are an expert or cursory fan of some band or musician. I was thinking of that moment when friends idle in your bedroom or living room and pass the time flipping through your music library. “How will people get to know her?” I wondered. The unfolding discussion ranged from caustic criticism to high praise, but somehow one image saddened me most-White’s vision of a massive, shared online library, equally accessible by all willing to pay the subscription fees. Various industry and New York Times blogs took note, and eventually NPR’s Robin Hilton wrote a follow-up post.
When NPR intern Emily White blogged in June about her largely unpaid-for music collection, she probably didn’t expect a nearly 4,000-word essay in response … or that musician and lecturer David Lowery’s challenge to her freeloading-make that free downloading-would go viral.
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