Sweet Accumulation by Dispossession

"For all contemporary musical life is dominated by the commodity form: the last pre-capitalist residues have been eliminated. Music, with all the attributes of the ethereal and sublime which are generously accorded it, serves in America today as an advertisement for commodities which one must acquire in order to be able to hear music" (Adorno, "Fetish Character in Music and Regression in Listening" 278).