The well known rockstar, Bon Jovi, says Steve Jobs is “personally responsible for killing the music business” with iTunes. In an interview with The Sunday Times Magazine, the rock star said that kids no longer enjoy the “magical” experience of buying and enjoying LPs because of digital downloads.

“Kids today have missed the whole experience of putting the headphones on, turning it up to 10, holding the jacket, closing their eyes and getting lost in an album; and the beauty of taking your allowance money and making a decision based on the jacket, not knowing what the record sounded like, and looking at a couple of still pictures and imagining it. God, it was a magical, magical time. I hate to sound like an old man now, but I am, and you mark my words, in a generation from now people are going to say: ‘What happened?’. Steve Jobs is personally responsible for killing the music business.”

To be honest, I just listen to music because I enjoy listening to music, it has nothing to do about going out and buying a LP/CD. Along side that, I can get it instantaneously via iTunes without having to go drive to my local music store to find the LP/CD, that they may not even have in stock. Plus iTunes has started to feature LPs for you to download with lots of bonus content, and in fact, it may have more content that an physical LP you get from the store.

[TSTM (paywall)]