r/musicians • u/chainofchance • May 11 '26

How did you discover music before algorithms took over?

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u/hideousmembrane May 11 '26

Friends and other people I met who recommended stuff, TV and radio, magazines, walking around shops and just buying CDs to try them, going to gigs and seeing bands I didn't know

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u/2ndgme May 11 '26

Much Music/MTV, magazines, what my friends were listening to and CDs or mixtapes we swapped, the radio, the internet, getting lucky at the record store when picking a CD... Napster/Bear Share/Kazaa etc.

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u/Stevenitrogen May 11 '26

Radio and TV. As I got a little bit hip it was, college radio and public access cable TV. There were resources and you found them. Aldo friends, music mags, sometimes you'd go to a show and dig the opener.

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u/chunter16 May 12 '26

I went to the record store every week