Honestly, it might be age, but I dont even give a fuck anymore...i just take what i want that hits me from whats available to me. And since the ease of exposure to new music you have not heard is effortless on the internet, you have no excuse really. Yeah, I could give a fuck about Gaga....but that track she did with Flo-rida "Starstruck"? have you heard the thump on that shit? I had that on blast for weeks.

Anyway, there are 2 things that cause me no real alarm for music that is pumped to the masses.
1.) Internet radio, streams, whatever. (i.e. Pandora, grooveshark, 8tracks.com...etc....etc.)
I can pick ANY genre and judge what i like and what i dont. I JUST HEARD ABOUT dubstep last year! I never knew what that was. (And honestly, its....its allright, there is some good stuff in there, its just really really slim pickings.

2.) I have 3 decades of rap to fill my playlists and listening time. 3 motherfucking decades!!!! Thats just amazing! I got so much rap on the pod its a crime....(lol, literally, much of it was a "crime" hahaha i kill me)....and i havent even heard all rap ever made! I love it! I was exposed to Kool Keiths "Livin Astro" last year! I never heard that shit before cause I didnt fuck with anything after Dr.....Dr Octogynocologist. I do know though. Love it. Love it. I'll find NEW-TO-ME rap as long as i live...whether its old school, new underground...whatever.

My listening needs are fiiiiiiine in todays world. I'm good.

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Honestly, it might be age, but I dont even give a fuck anymore...i just take what i want that hits me from whats available to me. And since the ease of exposure to new music you have not heard is effortless on the internet, you have no excuse really.

I think that's how everyone feels about music, extremely disenfranchised because it's all available for free on mp3 or youtube or whatever so therefore it's not even worth wasting time listening to. I think it's pretty sad how disconnected people have become from music since they discovered how disposable it all is. A lot of people consider live shows the only music worth paying for. The Internet has become a double edged sword for musicians in some ways hurts them in other ways helps spread their music far and wide. That kind of world-wide instant exposure is nice, but if everyone is downloading their music for free they won't make music anymore.

I still say it's gotten so bad that musicians can't even GIVE music away anymore because so many people figure, "fuck it, I might get it later" "My hard drive has enough mp3s on it that I never even heard, no point in downloading more junk"

That's pretty sad if you think about it, to clump all music into the disposable category makes the music itself worthless.

Can you imagine selling all your mp3s to someone? Whether it's one mp3 or millions on your hard-drive, it has no value, it can't be resold. Records, CDs and tapes however can be resold they retain their value but some of those buyers buy for nostalgic reasons, bragging rights, or in the best case because "it sounds better", but they don't technically have to do that since they could just download it for free either way. That right there is why the music industry is struggling, how many people out there fall under that category, right? Not many.

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I JUST HEARD ABOUT dubstep last year! I never knew what that was. (And honestly, its....its allright, there is some good stuff in there, its just really really slim pickings.

I was just thinking this myself. I knew about dubstep for a while, since maybe 2005, but it was only this year that I've heard some few one-off bangers that really grabbed me. This is one of those genres that I'm gonna keep curious about for a while.

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