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| quote: | Originally posted by SYSTEM-J
Prior to purchasing Wider Angle, the only Hybrid productions I had heard were their remixes of Café del Mar and Papua New Guinea. I shit you not. I bought this album because it had been widely praised, without any knowledge of what it would sound like. I fucking ordered it on import on Amazon, and sat there for six weeks waiting until some cock in the US cancelled it and I had to find it in HMV. Does that sound like the actions of someone who just downloaded it so he could rip into it, and then cast it away? No. It doesn't. |
that doesn't no, but my point (in the end) i think was good. How many of us can nowadays just dl something before deciding whether to buy, whereas in the times I started buying music, it was hit & miss, you had to buy it or take recommendations off other people and hope that they had a similar taste to you. I miss those days, the days of surprise, as it was way more fulfilling to hear something on a tape or cd & continually rewind to hear it again. It's been spoilt forever in that instant. The problem with doing what you did, was you listened to the opinions of others, and let that build up some sort of hope. For many this hope was fulfilled, for you, it wasn't, that doesn't change the actual quality of it at all, just your subjective opinions.
In an era where there is way too much negativity about things that were popular in a past time, whether or not it was because they genuinely don't like them, they liked them & now see it's cool to not like them, or they just plain want to antagonise people with their opinions, it's hard to tell what is done out of spite & what is actually constructive. Opinions are dead, Ishkur killed them.
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