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the record store to MySpace: sharing and creating music with records and mp3s The way music is produced, circulated, accessed and consumed has undergone a fundamental change as digital storage has become both the industry and the individual‟s standard. It is now easier to access new music thanks to the Internet and the mp3 format. It has also become increasingly easy to create, mix, record and produce your own music thanks to both this storage format and the wide variety of easily accessible music computer programs. It would appear that the modern music experience (listening, accessing, creating, producing) is an example of the democratization of technology. This paper takes a closer look at this supposition and its implications by attempting to gain a deeper understanding of the value consumers and producers place on two very different storage formats: the vinyl record and the mp3. One format is tangible, bulky, breakable; the other is intangible, modifiable, ephemeral. We were curious to know whether the disassociation of the object and the sound it traditionally contains lessen