All In The Packaging

Recorded music no longer has the constraints it once had. But over the past two or three decades, we have been nostalgically reintroducing the old formats with the original constraints--for example a digital release with 12-15 songs as would fit on two sides of a vinyl record. I like the idea of serialization, and that may be the format going forward. If The Beatles' Sgt. Pepper or Dark Side of