MORE NOSTALGIA: So Long, Columbia House. And Thanks for Making Me Cool. “That was 1995, making me part of the last generation to experience the service before the post-scarcity era of online music. Today my young rural counterparts have smart phones that can stream millions of songs for free, provided they’re willing to sit through a few ads. Sites like Bandcamp and Soundcloud provide an entire galaxy of obscure indie music to which only people reading the hippest `zines of the old era would ever have been privy.”