No patience for albums anymore

[Mantle Drunk]

I just bought the 9th Wonder and Buckshot and the Sean Price albums last week and I've barely listen to them. I'm realizing buying albums is a waste of time for me now (even though it's already ridiculous to buy albums in the first place) I've listen to them maybe twice I just can't get engulfed or put in the time to enjoy albums.

When I was younger when I bought a new album I would listen to it constantly non stop it became a soundtrack during the time I was listening to it. Now if I play 2 songs on a album while I'm in my car everytime for a month I still can't really even appreciate it. When back in the day I would know whole albums word for word. I guess Wu-Block just came out today I'll probably get it in a couple of weeks if myself from 5 years ago knew that I didn't purchase that 1st day I would be disgusted with myself.

I guess I'm getting to old I just can't put the effort in or have the interest that I once did anyone else having this problem?

 

[DaveyDave]

that's wehat happens when you can download any album at any moment. it's turned into something that's completely disposable

 

[Tetris v2.0]

Maybe youre growing out of it?

I think I can relate though. Its fun feasting on this site but a lot of the food does not digest well and say, after taking a large dump about 15 minutes (or a few days to fit the analogy) later, I feel starved again.

I can honestly only count on a handful of albums to keep the belly full for a few months or more. Some become personal classics.

You also might be getting older and more critical of what you like and less easily pleased.

 

[Shogun]

I decided to stop downloading albums. I also rarely buy albums.

I find I listen to classics in my collection more, and the albums I do buy I appreciate much more.

constant downloading ruined music for me for a while.

 

[beenz]

man, u just now figuring this out? I learned this back in 2001.

 

[BlackZilla]

You should buy albums, at the very least to support the artists that you like. You owe them that much if you're downloading their $hit for free.

It's stuff like not supporting your artists that force them to either stop rapping or sell out. So if you like an artist, you download their $hit for free, and they put out an album you should buy it, if you want to keep on hearing from them.

 

[Mantle Drunk]

You should buy albums, at the very least to support the artists that you like. You owe them that much if you're downloading their $hit for free.

It's stuff like not supporting your artists that force them to either stop rapping or sell out. So if you like an artist, you download their $hit for free, and they put out an album you should buy it, if you want to keep on hearing from them.

I've always bought the albums of artist I appreciate and still do it's just that now they become another piece to the collection more then anything else.

 

[C-FRE$H]

I have no reason to buy an album.......... i dont have any way of playing cds

 

[Uncle_Ruckus]

maaannn. just dl dat shyt. artist still got they contract money and tours

 

[Obtain Knowledge]

I just bought the 9th Wonder and Buckshot and the Sean Price albums last week and I've barely listen to them. I'm realizing buying albums is a waste of time for me now (even though it's already ridiculous to buy albums in the first place) I've listen to them maybe twice I just can't get engulfed or put in the time to enjoy albums.

When I was younger when I bought a new album I would listen to it constantly non stop it became a soundtrack during the time I was listening to it. Now if I play 2 songs on a album while I'm in my car everytime for a month I still can't really even appreciate it. When back in the day I would know whole albums word for word. I guess Wu-Block just came out today I'll probably get it in a couple of weeks if myself from 5 years ago knew that I didn't purchase that 1st day I would be disgusted with myself.

I guess I'm getting to old I just can't put the effort in or have the interest that I once did anyone else having this problem?

Yeah, I know what you mean. Hip Hop as a whole is not the same anymore. The quality of music and yes, even the non commercial music isn't the same anymore. The only thing I hear from time to that I might like is a beat. Occasionally it'll be a nice beat like for instance, that "Diced Pineapples" song by Wale or Rick Ross. That song has a nice beat but none of the cats on that song say anything that should make the song into a classic or anything memorable. Even Rick Ross' "Magnificent" has one of the best beats I've heard in a long time but Ross doesn't say anything worth wild on the record.

 

[Ashtrey]

Still listening to GKMC almost every day

Haven't even bothered listening to Meek's album and other new releases.

 

[BlackZilla]

I've always bought the albums of artist I appreciate and still do it's just that now they become another piece to the collection more then anything else.

Ohhh, I see what you mean.

Well, it could be several factors...could be that your taste in music has changed...stuff that you would've gone crazy for back in the day don't really move you now...or it could be that thanks to technological advances, stuff like mixtapes and albums have pretty much become A LOT more accessible than before, so there isn't really that much build up in terms of hype.

Leaks come out early, then there is the fact that the mixtape game has pretty much allowed an artist to oversaturate himself by giving away tons of free album quality music, so when they release their albums it feels like another mixtape.

Then of course there is the overall decline in quality of mainstream rap music (Save a few)

A number of factors have led to albums being less anticipated, cherished. I would blame the mixtape game (@BlackDeBiase pointed this out a long time ago) and the uber easy accessibility to music now for this.

 

[thernbroom]

I just bought the 9th Wonder and Buckshot and the Sean Price albums last week and I've barely listen to them. I'm realizing buying albums is a waste of time for me now (even though it's already ridiculous to buy albums in the first place) I've listen to them maybe twice I just can't get engulfed or put in the time to enjoy albums.

When I was younger when I bought a new album I would listen to it constantly non stop it became a soundtrack during the time I was listening to it. Now if I play 2 songs on a album while I'm in my car everytime for a month I still can't really even appreciate it. When back in the day I would know whole albums word for word. I guess Wu-Block just came out today I'll probably get it in a couple of weeks if myself from 5 years ago knew that I didn't purchase that 1st day I would be disgusted with myself.

I guess I'm getting to old I just can't put the effort in or have the interest that I once did anyone else having this problem?

Its almost 2013 nobody can relate 2 9th Wonder or Buckshot, go pick up that new weeknd album