back2onett wrote:JBE wrote:Honestly, at 12, I didn't give a good god damn what people thought about the music I listened to, hell, I didn't even really care what I listened to. As a matter of fact not a single person I knew when I was 12 really gave a shit, at least not enough to go around asking everyone. My guess is it's someone just trying to stir up some shit.
I sure as hell cared when I was 12, idk maybe that's just me. I probably started caring about the music I listened to when I was 7/8
Well, it's not like I didn't "care" what I was listening to so much as I didn't care if it was something others thought was lame, as long as I enjoyed it. I never really cared enough about music as a whole to actually take the time to branch out and discover new music like I did later on. Even when I did discover a new type of music or band/artist I couldn't really get any of it cause I didn't have any money to buy cds/cassettes. For me to be able to get a new cd it either had to be my birthday, christmas, or me going out and shoveling snow, mowing lawns, and all that good stuff to make just enough to buy 1 cd, so I really had to make it count.
It wasn't as easy to find music like it is now. Even back then the internet was really still coming into it's own and I was still pretty naive to it. Then napster was born and I started just going nuts finding new bands and genres and all that. I think right about then was when I really started to discover my musical interests as far as genres. Before that the only way I really heard anything new was either through the radio or just picking up random cds on impulse from the store or from friends. Impulse buys were not something I did very often though cause like I said before, I usually had to work my ass off for that money so I made sure I knew exactly what I was buying and that I would like it. When Wal-Mart introduced those demo stations in the music department it was like a gift from god......that is when they actually worked.
It makes me a bit envious to those that were raised with the internet being such a vast resource as it is now. I missed out on so much good music when I was growing up that I didn't start discovering till it was already considered, "Old school", and out-of-date so to speak.