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Beware, this whole post is not really "on topic", but I don't feel like deleting all the stuff I wrote.


Being "the guy that listen to the "strangest" music and initiates other people to "strange" music, I never really felt the "collective" experience feeling... I remember the day NYC G&F came out, I think I was the first guy to buy it in the whole city, and I straight away put it in my discman (retro music playing, yeah!) and walked around the city center feeling kinda "different", almost special, nobody else could have that music in his head. It was a great feeling. Not that I felt "superior" to other people, I just felt good. I didn't even have internet back then, but actually nowadays things haven't changed much. I still eagerly wait and buy all the albums I really care for. Damn, I even like the smell of recycled paper in the Red Sparowes' booklets, reading the "thank you" lists and stuff. But for the collective experience the only thing that matters nowadays is the live concert. I'd feel quite embarassed to listen to an album for the first time with other people around, I like it to be a really personal, kidna intimate thing. Leaked music (this has been said already) has pros/cons, but to be honest I think that what really "killed" the collective experience kind of thing is the unbearable amount of recordings released all over the world and, to an extent, the "recording at home" tools that makes it really easy for even the dumbest fu*k to release something, make that amount rise exponentially in numbers. Internet has become fundamental even just to keep track of the "bigger" things you like ( sy side projects... heh) , the "underground" world is soooo intricated and complex that the fragmentation of tastes/interests is inevitable.