I always have hated radio stations. I can't stand TV either. Both threaten me by pushing their horrible material on me while harassing me with neverending advertising and consumerism, polluting my mind. I've always been a fan of searching out new music and never had enough money to buy the cds I wanted. Worse yet, my musical tastes have always been so obscure that I can never carry on a conversation about what bands are near and dear to my heart because no one I know has heard of them.
It's not that I'm a music snob, I just have very picky tastes. I like certain things very much; the music I listen to inspires my artwork, so I have to be controlling about it. Anyways, lately I've been really starved for new music (I'm a poor married college student, what did you expect?)...enter: pandora.com
I've been fascinated by large music databases since I became a teenager. They used to have MUSE booths at the record store where you could punch in what you like and see everything by that artist. I've been a fan of www.allmusic.com, but this post isn't about that site. Pandora.com is a radio service which (unwittingly) follows Nicholas Negroponte's ideas of end-user-demand service; instead of a DJ playing the same five tunes over and over again, the service narrows your search for new music by allowing you to decide what songs they play you like and which you don't. Ideally, it should reach a point where every song it comes up with fits your category, but it's all new music. Ah, heaven.
If only I had the money to buy all the new cds I've found.
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