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Nothing wrong with couch tour is there if you can't (for whatever reason, and there are many in life, work, money or lack thereof, family) see the live thing.
(Somewhat playing the Devil's Advocate, because live music and the experience, friends, etc. are best experienced live of course...but)
Like the article says, our own fave musicians pushed the tech envelope for our benefit, why shouldn't things keep evolving?