The number of talented and perceptive people found on the internet is staggering. Take the sprawling ‘What Is This Thing?’ ...

That visibility is also a risk. Smith is putting herself in front of unscreened audiences, where heckling, hostile questions, ...

Yet for as many 99-cent songs as were purchased in the 2000s, anyone who spent time on that era’s file-sharing networks can verify that the LP was still the most important unit for music obsessives.