There used to be a hidden responsibility that came with being the first person in your crowd to get hold of a record. You’d have to part with it for a few days right out of the gate so that your friends could tape it or rip it. By the time you got the CD back (usually missing the little teeth that held the disc in place), it had changed. Now it belonged to everyone, with their fingerprints alongside yours on the plastic case, and a rush of opinions waiting impatiently just out of frame. Music is often as much about those fingerprints and opinions as it is the actual nuts and bolts of an album or song. It’s a personal and a communal experience, and a singularly powerful tool of self-discovery. Bartees Strange gets it. His breakthrough LP Live Forever ...