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“Who’s gonna be a music critic in five years anyway? Everything’s going to be so crowd-sourced and so hive-minded soon, and it already is. It’s not like one writer on Pitchfork says, “Memory Tapes is good” and that’s why they’re important — it’s everyone talking about Memory Tapes. Music criticism is no longer about who’s shouting the loudest — it’s about who everyone is talking about the most, at the most medium volume.”

“Just yesterday I was taking a shower and thinking about what will be the most important record of 2010. When I think about the records that were important in 2000s, how important I thought Cannibal Ox was, I thought that record was going to be change the world. Or Lightning Bolt, I always thought Lightning Bolt was going to change the world. Both did in some capacity, but not like Dashboard Confessional, not like Soulja Boy. Soulja Boy as an artist is ephemeral, but Soulja Boy as a business model is fucking huge, and there’s a good chance it’s going to be everything. Music today is getting to be less and less about skills, and more about more MySpace friends — but whenever I say things like that, I sound like Jello Biafra.”