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This really hits home for me. Back in my late high school / early college days I was obsessing over not only finding new music but being the first to recommend

This really hits home for me. Back in my late high school / early college days I was obsessing over not only finding new music but being the first to recommend it to my friends. Some professor in college made a comment once about how at around his mid/late 20s he stopped putting much effort into finding the latest and greatest bands, and just kind of got comfortable with what he already knew and it seemed to be a common thing among his peers. I vowed to never let this happen to me, but here I am at 29, comfortably listening to most of the same music I did in college, with little new addition over the past 3-4 years.

pyrocat 12y ago
Try soundcloud.
dfxm12 12y ago
Back in college, you probably had a lot more free time to seek out new music to listen to. There are lots on confounding variables. Maybe your budget for entertainment was such that you could only afford to go to concerts or buy CD's (compared to going on a vacation, or buying an expensive meal at a trendy restaurant, or fancy bottle of wine). Maybe you were more willing to go to "bad" side of town to see a new unpopular new act. Maybe since you've graduated college, you've found other hobbies that you care more about than music. We're the same age, and these are some things that I've noticed happening to me. According to the article, when you become a parent your music taste stagnates as well...