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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)
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.