Spotify Wrapped (share what you've been listening to!)

Hemotep said:
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As a 90s pirate, I never knew this pain.
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This is why the pirate life was fer me. I was not an album person as a teen because of it.

I remember watching a behind the music segment on blink-182 and they just made the track they were going to use as the lead single, maybe for Enema of the State. Mark Hoppus then said “now we just need to make 9 more songs of filler crap and we’ve got an album.” He was joking, but that’s how it felt with so many albums backs then. Napster freed us from those shackles.
 
Melt Face Molly Drop said:
This is why the pirate life was fer me. I was not an album person as a teen because of it.

I remember watching a behind the music segment on blink-182 and they just made the track they were going to use as the lead single, maybe for Enema of the State. Mark Hoppus then said “now we just need to make 9 more songs of filler crap and we’ve got an album.” He was joking, but that’s how it felt with so many albums backs then. Napster freed us from those shackles.
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Absolutely. The worst part of the 90s-00s was the number of bands who had that mentality, largely pushed by the record companies. Napster and then Bearshare were amazing. I still bought a lot of CDs (hello Columbia House and BMG! And the used bins of course) and went to a ton of concerts to support artists, but I got to check stuff out early and pass on a lot of crap that way.
 
Hemotep said:
Absolutely. The worst part of the 90s-00s was the number of bands who had that mentality, largely pushed by the record companies. Napster and then Bearshare were amazing. I still bought a lot of CDs (hello Columbia House and BMG! And the used bins of course) and went to a ton of concerts to support artists, but I got to check stuff out early and pass on a lot of crap that way.
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I still bought the occasional CD at Best Buy or Target, but they were still $12 or 13. That was still a lot for music discovery. I was always amazed when shopping at the mall at Sam Goody or Disc Jockey and they wanted $19.99 for CDs. That's about $35 now with inflation.
 
Melt Face Molly Drop said:
I still bought the occasional CD at Best Buy or Target, but they were still $12 or 13. That was still a lot for music discovery. I was always amazed when shopping at the mall at Sam Goody or Disc Jockey and they wanted $19.99 for CDs. That's about $35 now with inflation.
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Same. I would go browse those stores and wonder how the hell they stayed in business being so much higher.
 
Melt Face Molly Drop said:
This is why the pirate life was fer me. I was not an album person as a teen because of it.

I remember watching a behind the music segment on blink-182 and they just made the track they were going to use as the lead single, maybe for Enema of the State. Mark Hoppus then said “now we just need to make 9 more songs of filler crap and we’ve got an album.” He was joking, but that’s how it felt with so many albums backs then. Napster freed us from those shackles.
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We used to buy pretty much every new release on Tuesdays at Best Buy - CDs and DVDs - and then realized we were wasting a ton of money on stuff we'd never listen to. I can remember it used to take 20+ minutes to download a single song through certain services, then broadband finally became available in my area. Oink was the best, and I recall Trent Reznor admitting that he was a member there after it finally got taken down.
 
threesunrises said:
We used to buy pretty much every new release on Tuesdays at Best Buy - CDs and DVDs - and then realized we were wasting a ton of money on stuff we'd never listen to. I can remember it used to take 20+ minutes to download a single song through certain services, then broadband finally became available in my area. Oink was the best, and I recall Trent Reznor admitting that he was a member there after it finally got taken down.
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I'd log on at night and go all night hoping that it wouldn't glitch or time out. Could usually get five to ten songs a night.
 
Hemotep said:
I'd log on at night and go all night hoping that it wouldn't glitch or time out. Could usually get five to ten songs a night.
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My buddy who lived down the street was lucky enough to have multiple phone lines in his house, so we would download movies for days on end without being interrupted by calls. Always a good day when one finished and it wasn't a shitty handycam rip or porn.
 
Before all the peer-to-peer stuff was popular, I was big on the newsgroups.

I used to post dvd rips to alt.binaries.dvd.midnightmovies

But I got a lot of albums off their, too.


Award season was great for all the "For Your Consideration" dvd rips of screeners that were available. I had a small side business selling dvd's to people I worked with. I didn't really mess with the camera-in-the-theater ones, though.
 
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I’m not sure how this ended up this way, but here we are:

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Also I got this one:

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Apparently, I mostly listened to spotify this year to prepare for concerts I was attending.

I also blame the death of JQBX for making me less of an “adventurer” than previous years.
 
This year was different for me. I didn't listen to as much new music as I usually do and relied on some old favorites and new discoveries of old artists. I continued the Dissect podcast of Mac Miller into the beginning of this year and continued that deep dive, but didn't realize I listened to him that much haha

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