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0 pointsng129y ago0 comments

Haha, fair. But the point is digitally you can explore the long tail in a way that's very hard in real life. Most of my immediate peers would have some opinion on Radiohead but it's relatively unlikely we could deliver meaningful recommendations based on eachother's specific tastes.

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anigbrowl9y ago· 1 in thread

Before there was digital there were specialist record stores. a taste for the obscure isn't a new thing, although it's easier than ever to indulge.

lmm9y ago

I think there is less need to tolerate the mainstream than ever (which equally you could frame the other way around). These days if a given internet radio station is playing too much black metal and not enough death metal it's trivial to switch to one that only plays blackened death metal.

xyzzy_plugh9y ago

This is such a strange position to me.

The friends I grew up with have very compatible music tastes as me. My wife and I have a lot of genre incompatibility, but there is a trove of music that we enjoy together. I've managed to find common ground with coworkers across many different jobs and countries.

All of these relationships have resulted in a growth of interest in some genre or sub-genre for me.

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