It doesn't matter how you find it

so long as you appreciate it once you do.

New bands are constant, music journalism is a joke, all that matters is that you like what you like. Trying to find new music lately it seems that so many sites and blogs are so concerned with being of the moment, of being the newest and the freshest and being over everything before it begins anywhere else that no one seems to actually care about the music they write about.

Sometimes I find bands after they have broken up, or a year or four after they were hip. They are no less worthwhile, just no longer of the moment. It begs the question, are the Rolling Stones or Elliott Smith or Radiohead any less exciting or worthwhile as discovered by a 16 year old today as they were when they were the new, when you found them and they meant the world to you. Certainly the music is still great, but does it mean as much without context?

Here, no context, no reason to play this other than I just found them and this is what's interesting to me right now.

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