In prehistoric days - like, say, the 1970s - your local rock radio station might play a song that caught your ear. Then you might have read a review of that band in something like a Rolling Stone magazine you picked up at a newstand. And that review might have been just the motivation you needed to fork over five or six bucks at Kmart for a copy of the band's new album, which you would have listened to on the turntable that night as you read the album cover and sleeve - once you got the family room to yourself, of course.Today, you might hear an eight-second blip of an unfamiliar song by a band you've never heard of while you're scrolling Instagram and drinking your morning matcha. In between sets during your lunchtime trip to the gym, you do your research - scanning Google, YouTube, Reddit - to find out more about the band and sample their songs. By the time you walk the dog after dinner, you're listening to your new playlist featuring songs by the band you heard for the first time this morning as well as three other bands that sound similar and were suggested to you by your streaming service.How we find, buy and consume music has changed in just about every way possible over the years. Everything is everywhere all at once and pretty much free if you don't want to buy it, and so mobile that you can listen to it every step of your day.But is the process of music consumption better? Has it become so accessible and random that it has lost some of its magic? What do we even know our favorite singers and musicians today? Are they now just faceless performers entertaining us in the moment? And do all of those music products actually deliver a better sound, or does music feel a little cheaper now?On this week's episode, the "How We Heard It" hosts consider the changes music fans have gone through in consuming their favorite artists - some for the better, some for the worse - and ask themselves if they're better off now.Are you?