A Word on Music Discovery

I don’t know how many YEARS it took me to final­ly real­ize Ein­sturzende Neubaut­en were cool, but it took an awful­ly long time. And they were favor­ably com­pared to bands I liked all the while. So while it’s cheap­er to down­load some­thing today, it does­n’t mean peo­ple will instan­ta­neous­ly hit that tip­ping point, even if it’s free. Isn’t that the per­il of the long tail in a nutshell?

Do you remem­ber star­ing at the stack of CDs you found at the used record store, try­ing to fig­ure out what you were buy­ing and what you’d leave behind? Man, my stom­ach still turns just think­ing about it.