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Maktesh t1_j8cnnld wrote

Reply to comment by user262 in Knowing we like a song takes only seconds of listening, new psychology research finds by thebelsnickle1991

Back in the day, music was costly. If we bought an album/tape/CD we didn't initially like, we would give it several tries.

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Magusreaver t1_j8d770n wrote

And this is how I fell in love with Tom Waits, and Nick Cave. An out of state friend talked about much I would love them, they were never on *mtv or the radio.. so just got them from EarXstacy (record store) and then spent the next couple weeks regretting every dollar spent. Then over a couple more weeks I fell in love with them. Now 25 years later I still listen to them almost daily.

*I had heard Nick Cave on Mtv once with the song Where The Wild Roses Grow, it's an amazing song, but not what the album sounds like as a whole.

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schlubadubdub t1_j8de6dj wrote

Yeah, I was going to mention those. Quite often I'd buy a whole album for one or two good songs, but because I played the whole thing I grew to love other songs. But I haven't bought music in 20 years and can't remember the last time I played a whole album on Spotify. Sure I'd check out other songs by artists, but I quickly skip through stuff I don't like and never come back to it.

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