Overnight, we’ve come to expect any movie ever made to be available at the click of a button, and we usually get our wish. It’s an amazing embarrassment of riches. But when entertainment flows as freely as water from a faucet, we start to take it for granted. We don’t get the pleasure of seeking it out, and we don’t bother sharing it with friends. Part of the fun of watching obscure movies used to be the thrill of finding something rare… but in the Internet Age, no movie is rare. And like I said before, that’s a good thing that makes me a little sad.

Great post that really does sum up some of my 80′s and 90′s derived angst over tape trading and obscure (yet awesome) movies that had to be sought out rather than just downloaded.

As the author points out, it’s a great thing that folks have this sort of access to info, movies and music now.

However there was something so special and so human involved in that great hunt that every geek child had to suffer through trying to find a copy of the Star Wars Holiday Special or a Beatles bootleg from the Twickenham Sessions…