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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted clever little truths, hidden in daily life.

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I personally love my collection (records, CD, digital) and enjoy sharing the experience with friends. I don't use streaming unless you count soma fm at work. Sure, I'll use YouTube to listen to some albums I don't own, but if I truly like it I'll buy or download it, usually on bandcamp or direct from artist if I can.

For me, I don't believe the human brain was ever made for this level of stimulation (we shouldn't really have 24/7 access to social media either. Go back to the "family PC" model). People have very little connection to music anymore becuase there's too much and its too easy to access. I can barely remember all the members names in my favorite bands or all their albums. There's little chance anyone even knows the artists of the millions of songs they're streaming, or the story behind them.

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[–] bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works 3 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

I'm always finding new music. I just dont do it using "recommended playlists".

[–] KC_Royalz@lemmy.world 1 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

I got tired of hearing the same stuff from the 80s 90s and early 2000s so I just subscribed to spotify for a few months to explore some new music without ads.

I've tried to get back into cds but it's the old there's two tracks I like on this one, so switch. I believe in listening to albums in their entirety unless you absolutely can't stand a song. Streaming is just to convenient and the old way is to limited. Plus it's far cheaper.

I havent found much modern new music I've loved, there's a few here and there. But I have rediscovered bands I completely forgotten about on streaming or was unaware of from way back then that I now enjoy.

Also some bands who I never cared for their radio single so I just dismissed them and didn't give them a chance like sum41 and Volbeat. Recently listened to all of princes albums in full for the first time.