| I think there is a male
| misconception out there that if you don't ceaseslessly buy, collect,
| proove your knowlege that somehow you don't appreciate or truly
| understand music.
A rather snobby classical music fan was peeking through my record collection
about a decade ago (when it was all Ramones, the Fall, the Residents, and
Motorhead) and we were talking rather nicely about music. He mentioned that,
having seen my record collection, he could effectively discount my taste in
music.
I was kinda offended - not because he thought that Chopin was better than
Joey Ramone, but because he thought he could pigeonhole me by looking at my
records. I told him that it's misguided to judge someone's musical tastes by
what they own, or for that matter even by what they listen to most of the
time.
I play squarepusher sometimes for freinds at the office - they genuinely
enjoy it, but they would never choose to listen to it on their own. Is their
appreciation of the music inferior to mine? I don't think so. Some of them
have even pointed out to me interesting things about the music I hadn't
noticed before, and actually increased my appreciation of it.
I'm not going to draw male/female comparisons, but I did want to acknowledge
that the idea that you can be a IDM "appreciator" without being a slobbering
fan is often overlooked.
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