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While you're streaming the new 1975 album you got for Christmas or revisiting Pink Floyd's The Wall, it should be noted that Thomas Edison was the real music-consumption MVP. 

That's right, the electric light bulb inventor had the brilliant idea in 1877 to build the phonograph, the first method to reproduce recorded sounds, even though he had lost most of his hearing.