Anyone miss not being spoiled for music choices?

[wingzboy]

While I love the fact that I can listen to anything anytime instantaneously nowadays, nothing compares to the feeling back when I had to determine which album to buy because I didn't have enough money to cop all new albums coming out. Each album stayed in rotation for months and you'd know not only the lyrics to all the tracks but even the order they play in on the cd.

Today I can barely even remember titles of the tracks on albums let alone the lyrics. There's so much shyt out there, mixtapes, and new artists, a nikka get names and shyt all mixed up. I miss appreciating my music collection like I once did brehs.

 

[The_King_of_Everything]

You also have to consider the quality has dropped a ton too

 

[Ohene]

yup

 

[wingzboy]

You also have to consider the quality has dropped a ton too

Word. Back then I would be listening to the lyrics hard, paying attention, tryna catch any quotables.Today's it's just casual listening, because you know 90% of the verse before hearing it, a cup of lean, "skurrrrrr" car noises, a bad foreign bytch in a foreign car, rocking designer shyt, getting racks and just rearrange the order of those topics for each song and you got an entire tape/album.

 

[criminology]

I pay for rdio and still buy music but music was way more special when you had to part with 10-15 dollars, 90's dollars at that, to get that shyt on the day it dropped. You bonded with the liner notes and art way more. Nothing like your friends car eating the purple tape to make you I remember I got supreme clientele on tape to save a few bucks because I was burnt by those other second wave wu solos. But went and copped the cd.

It cost more and there was always that risk of one good song out of 15. You were more invested in it, literally. But we were spoiled in a different way back then. We're lucky if we get one hip hop release this year as good as SC. Back then they came out weekly.

 

[mortuus est]

you dont have to listen to everything - Jesus

 

[YaBishh]

The Era when the Radio was actually doing what they supposed to do and mixing and mashing instead of playing 5 of the same records over and fukking over

I remembered when they dropped the new joint of the day Lil Flip- Game Over And when they first dropped Chamillionaire- Riding Dirty
Seeing my Southern Brehs shine Now its all Bullshyt

 

[wingzboy]

I pay for rdio and still buy music but music was way more special when you had to part with 10-15 dollars, 90's dollars at that, to get that shyt on the day it dropped. You bonded with the liner notes and art way more. Nothing like your friends car eating the purple tape to make you I remember I got supreme clientele on tape to save a few bucks because I was burnt by those other second wave wu solos. But went and copped the cd.

It cost more and there was always that risk of one good song out of 15. You were more invested in it, literally. But we were spoiled in a different way back then. We're lucky if we get one hip hop release this year as good as SC. Back then they came out weekly.

Real shyt! Breh I remember the disappointment if I had taken a risk on an artist I wasn't familiar with, bought their wack cd and then kinda forcing myself to like it because I just spent 15$ on the damn CD. Tryna replay tracks hoping it would at least grow on me so I would have something new to bump.

Like you said, hearing each new track was a special moment, you knew the booklet inside out, the photos, hell I used to even read all the shout outs on the back! All nikkas always starting out thanking god! LOL.