I sort of half sympathise with you and have don't.
I also used to love going to record fairs in search of obscurities, and I also spent many hours wandering record shops looking for records such as Morton Feldman’s Madame Press Died Last Week At Ninety or The Second Dream of the High-Tension Line Stepdown Transformer From The Four Dreams of China by La Monte Young, or some Krautrock record, most of which I never actually found. Though sometimes I did.
Yet with the arrival of the internet I am now pretty much able to buy any record or book I fancy, and I am glad about this. (All hail the internet!)
But yes probably do lose something, maybe it is like the Holy Grail, its the quest that matters rather than getting your hands on the actual cup.
Did you live in Glasgow during the age of John Smiths on Byers Road? That was the sort of place you could find obscure records you couldn’t get anywhere else, and I think it was the internet which largely killed it.
A pity in some ways, but in the end I would have to say I prefer the way things are now.
i think you hit the nail on the head with 'quest'. it is the lack of adventure i am questioning.
i'm not a luddite and technology changes people's lives on a daily basis. i just felt something had been lost and while i can't put my finger on what this is.
i just feel it's too easy. you can be anything or get anything at the touch of a button. it can't be very rewarding but i guess in that respect i'm old now 
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