08-29-2019, 01:12 PM
Dial back a couple of decades and your local record store would still have listening booths. Mine had 4. Pick out an album that caught your eye and hand it to the guy (at least it was always a guy in my home town) behind the counter. He'd load it on one of the turntables and point to the booth. Last century's "try before you buy".
That was great but many of the artists on BandCamp and elsewhere online would never have made it through the A&R divisions of the record companies to a record release. You'd never even know they existed if you didn't live in a metropolitan area where there were lots of clubs. Even then you'd only get to hear a few.
The bad news now for me is that I have so many streams of music available I'm like Buridan's Ass: the proverbial donkey that starves to death standing between two identical piles of hay because it can't decide which one to eat.
Regards,
Kent
That was great but many of the artists on BandCamp and elsewhere online would never have made it through the A&R divisions of the record companies to a record release. You'd never even know they existed if you didn't live in a metropolitan area where there were lots of clubs. Even then you'd only get to hear a few.
The bad news now for me is that I have so many streams of music available I'm like Buridan's Ass: the proverbial donkey that starves to death standing between two identical piles of hay because it can't decide which one to eat.
Regards,
Kent
