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F1: Rock music is musically bankrupt and socially destructive
F2: At least the album covers of rock LPs from the 1960s and 1970s often featured innovative visual art
Premise: since the success of digital music has almost ended the production of LPs,
Conclusion: rock music has nothing going for it.

Q1: What does 'it' refers to? LPs or visual Art? LPs is plural to it should be visual Art. Is this correct? (Expert Opinion Please) VeritasKarishma

Basically, digital music is more popular these days and no one is listening to LPs now. Therefore, album covers of rock music are not featuring visual art now.

Question is asking about the assumption made by the author.

Negated the statement given in A : "Digital music is distributed with accompanying innovative visual art".
This is clearly breaking the above argument. If the digital music is also using the innovative visual art, there is no reason why the rock album covers not have a visual art.

The author is clearly assuming that the digital music covers don't have visual art and since digital music is getting popular, rock album covers will lose visual art.
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Critic: Rock music is musically bankrupt and socially destructive, but at least the album covers of rock LPs from the 1960s and 1970s often featured innovative visual art. But now, since the success of digital music has almost ended the production of LPs, rock music has nothing going for it.
Which one of the following is an assumption on which the critic's argument relies?

(A) Digital music is not distributed with accompanying innovative visual art
(B) Although very few LPs are produced today, most of these are rock LPs
(C) In the 1960s and 1970s, only rock LPs featured innovative album cover art.
(D) The LPs being produced today have innovative album cover art
(E) Rock music is less sophisticated musically and more destructive socially now than it was in the 1960s and 1970s

Premises:
Rock music is musically bankrupt and socially destructive
At least the album covers of rock LPs from the 1960s and 1970s often featured innovative visual art.
But now, since the success of digital music has almost ended the production of LPs,

Conclusion: Rock music has nothing going for it ('it' is rock music).

The point is this - the critic says that rock music is destructive. The album covers of rock music LPs (analog medium to store music) featured innovative art so there was some value in it. Now with digital music, LPs are not produced so that value is lost too. Hence rock music has nothing going for itself (has no value).

LPs had innovative visual art but since these are not produced anymore, we are assuming the innovative visual art is lost too. But what if digital media is distributed with innovative visual art? Then that value is not lost.

(A) Digital music is not distributed with accompanying innovative visual art.
This is an assumption our argument makes.
If digital music is distributed with accompanying innovative visual art, then all value is not lost.

Answer (A)
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Critic: Rock music is musically bankrupt and socially destructive, but at least the album covers of rock LPs from the 1960s and 1970s often featured innovative visual art. But now, since the success of digital music has almost ended the production of LPs, rock music has nothing going for it.
Which one of the following is an assumption on which the critic's argument relies?

(A) Digital music is not distributed with accompanying innovative visual art
(B) Although very few LPs are produced today, most of these are rock LPs
(C) In the 1960s and 1970s, only rock LPs featured innovative album cover art.
(D) The LPs being produced today have innovative album cover art
(E) Rock music is less sophisticated musically and more destructive socially now than it was in the 1960s and 1970s

Premises:
Rock music is musically bankrupt and socially destructive
At least the album covers of rock LPs from the 1960s and 1970s often featured innovative visual art.
But now, since the success of digital music has almost ended the production of LPs,

Conclusion: Rock music has nothing going for it ('it' is rock music).

The point is this - the critic says that rock music is destructive. The album covers of rock music LPs (analog medium to store music) featured innovative art so there was some value in it. Now with digital music, LPs are not produced so that value is lost too. Hence rock music has nothing going for itself (has no value).

LPs had innovative visual art but since these are not produced anymore, we are assuming the innovative visual art is lost too. But what if digital media is distributed with innovative visual art? Then that value is not lost.

(A) Digital music is not distributed with accompanying innovative visual art.
This is an assumption our argument makes.
If digital music is distributed with accompanying innovative visual art, then all value is not lost.

Answer (A)

Dear VeritasKarishma,

The conclusion (as you stated), speaks about Rock music, while the answer choice speaks about Digital Music and its value add that includes innovative visual art. I am confused as to whether we can consider Digital Music's value add and Rock music's value add the same?

Kindly help clarify.

Thanks
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Critic: Rock music is musically bankrupt and socially destructive, but at least the album covers of rock LPs from the 1960s and 1970s often featured innovative visual art. But now, since the success of digital music has almost ended the production of LPs, rock music has nothing going for it.
Which one of the following is an assumption on which the critic's argument relies?

(A) Digital music is not distributed with accompanying innovative visual art
(B) Although very few LPs are produced today, most of these are rock LPs
(C) In the 1960s and 1970s, only rock LPs featured innovative album cover art.
(D) The LPs being produced today have innovative album cover art
(E) Rock music is less sophisticated musically and more destructive socially now than it was in the 1960s and 1970s

Premises:
Rock music is musically bankrupt and socially destructive
At least the album covers of rock LPs from the 1960s and 1970s often featured innovative visual art.
But now, since the success of digital music has almost ended the production of LPs,

Conclusion: Rock music has nothing going for it ('it' is rock music).

The point is this - the critic says that rock music is destructive. The album covers of rock music LPs (analog medium to store music) featured innovative art so there was some value in it. Now with digital music, LPs are not produced so that value is lost too. Hence rock music has nothing going for itself (has no value).

LPs had innovative visual art but since these are not produced anymore, we are assuming the innovative visual art is lost too. But what if digital media is distributed with innovative visual art? Then that value is not lost.

(A) Digital music is not distributed with accompanying innovative visual art.
This is an assumption our argument makes.
If digital music is distributed with accompanying innovative visual art, then all value is not lost.

Answer (A)

Dear VeritasKarishma,

The conclusion (as you stated), speaks about Rock music, while the answer choice speaks about Digital Music and its value add that includes innovative visual art. I am confused as to whether we can consider Digital Music's value add and Rock music's value add the same?

Kindly help clarify.

Thanks

The argument is all about rock music on LPs vs rock music in digital format. When the options talk about 'digital music', they are talking about rock music in digital format.
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