Oh I hear you Candle, its not a bad thing...but in my opinion the difference doesn't lie in what you're getting but how you're getting it. I use the internet for EVERYTHING these days, including researching and purchasing music and its fantastic but sitting in my living room on a laptop just isn't the same thing. I guess I miss the sensations and experiences that went along with record shopping...in what? I don't what you would call it, real life?
In a way it just feels wrong surfing the net for a couple of hours and getting something that before would have taken me months or years to find, its like using a cheat code for a video game or something, the game is still fun, you still get to play but when you finally beat it you don't get that same sense of accomplishment.
Different strokes for different folks or however that saying goes, both have their good and bad points I suppose.
I don't know, I'm tired as all fuck right now so I hope that made sense.