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I'm 40, and when I was a teenager, EVERY band had CDs. And I know a lot of music has shifted to digital. So much so that I heard Best buy stopped selling CDs. Presumably because nobody buys them.

So I wonder what musicians sell besides t-shirts and posters at concerts. Do the kids have ANY CDs? Do they buy mp3's? Do they just use pandora and spotify? Do they even own their own music?

I've given up on trying to understand the lingo. Other generations lingo sounds stupid to me, but still understandable based on context.

I have NO idea what a skibifibi toilet is....sounds like a toilet after some taco bell and untalented jazz, but maybe I can try to understand their thought process on media consumption.

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[–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 15 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Upvoted. Because my favorite music comes from bands that I've been in tiny concert venues, where I'm 1 of 13 people in the crowd.

I'll admit that even though she's not my style, Taylor Swift has some....as the kids would say....bangers.

But my favorite music is with bands that I 100% can say you've never heard of, and is so obscure I doubt you could even find it.

But people like you are helping make obscure music easier to find. Awesome!

[–] androogee@midwest.social 14 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Can't be 100%, there's 12 others

[–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

.........found the dedicated mathimatician.

[–] brygphilomena@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I had to fix my ratio on redacted. I found I had so many CDs of random local bands that were handed out at shows that weren't online. It was weird to basically be the only person that had some music online.

[–] MorrisonMotel6@lemm.ee 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I did the same thing at the same place a few years ago!

[–] brygphilomena@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago (2 children)

It's crazy, because I know a lot of those bands aren't together anymore. They never made it and are effectively forgotten to the internet. I feel like a custodian of music history. If I didn't put them online, they'd have disappeared entirely.

I appreciate people like you.

[–] Dempf@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 month ago

I've definitely had that feeling before. I was really into Chinese rock bands and bought a bunch of CDs. I've been slowly uploading them. I mean China is a big country with lots of people, so it's not like these bands are completely unknown, but when I used to go to concerts in China some of the groups that I thought rocked the hardest didn't tend to pull big crowds. And when you look on Chinese Internet for this stuff, you usually find crappy MP3s, not rips following proper procedures.

I still think about the band where I showed up late because the train to Beijing was delayed and then the taxi driver couldn't find the venue address, so I just barely caught their last song. Then afterwards I was hanging out chatting with people and they were like, since you only got to hear one song you deserve to meet the singer. And they were friends with the singer so they called her to come out. It seemed like she was blown away that any foreign fans at all are into her music, and when she found out I didn't yet have a place to stay for the night and was planning to find a last minute hostel or hotel she said "no, you're not doing that, you're staying with my friends who have a spare room".

Whenever I rip & upload Chinese rock, I think about those people who were so friendly and gracious towards me. Like who tf invites some random stranger at a rock concert over like that. And none of those bands, even the ones that made it "big" really got the attention that I thought they deserved. They were pouring their heart and soul into their music.