The Pickup Artist by Terry Bisson

A bit on the strange side.  I can see how people would compare it to 'Fahrenheit 451', to a point.  This is about getting rid of centuries old artists, authors and musicians to make room for newer artists.  Then it goes on an interesting, strange tangent where one of the pickup artists wanted to hear something that he picked up.  It is a twisted path and a little twisted all together.  The history that was created for this as a parallel story was just as strange.