[LaSombra]

Progressive rock and conceptual albums would probably not exist if today's iTunes model existed in the 60s and 70s.

I can't imagine a Thick as a Brick or The Wall in an iTunes pay-by-the-song world.

[guard-of-terra]

I have a pet theory that progressive rock happened when there was a top number of educated young people in USA and UK. People who this music targets. People who actually bought music in numbers.

After that population started to age, and now music has to target your mom (and also teenage girls and boys who "consume" music now), and chances your mom doesn't want to dive into conceptual albums.

That kind of made music stupid.