PEASANT: Its quite lost over here.

People dont generally learn songs from recordings, most dont they use them for further entertainment whilst remaining mindless.

try again

er, WHAT???!!!

What you'ved been saying is that people basically learn songs from listening to others sing them live.

Do you have ANY evidence that this is the case, or is this just another of your crass generalisations?

There are VERY few people I know who could pick up a song sufficiently well to reproduce it after one live hearing. Even after 4 or 5 hearings, they're unlikely to have it down pat.

These days, since recording media have become ubiquitous, I'd say the vast majority of people learn their songs from recordings, whether you gradually acquire the words after hearing repeated airplay in your car, or sit down with a CD or a YouTube clip with a definite "mission" to learn it.

You seem to just make up assertions to support your narrow-minded prejudices without feeling the need to back them up with ANY evidence.

You've been asked for evidence that most people don't learn songs from recordings, and you've been asked REPEATEDLY for a few named examples of these "jet setting folkies" who live by the pool, show disdain for their audiences, and work hard to limit the accessibility of folk music in order to keep their fees up.

So far, nada, because you have NO such evidence. We know it, you know it, and any passing lurker knows it.