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quoted 2 lines This makes me wonder: do people only read about stuff they already

> This makes me wonder: do people only read about stuff they already > know they can definitely find locally?

This is a tricky one! As we all know, there's a VAST amount of new music - far too much to keep abreast of for ordinary beings with a budget and limited time [well, there are only 24 hours in a day]. Also, there's a large amount of mail coming through with positive and negative comments flying about releases. Too much to take in, especially if you don't know the release yourself. What I tend to do is read with keen interest and care those reviews relating to artists whose work I already know and like; with interest reviews relating to artists I have heard lots of positive things about but have no personal experience of, and with less interest reviews about people I've never heard of. Thus sometimes when later (up to a few years later) I happen to come across a release locally - either new or used - I might well remember having read _something_ about it on the list, but cannot recall what... whether it was positive or not, whether the description led me to believe it might be something up my alley or totally opposite to my taste. At this point I might well write a query to the list asking for refreshed opinions. Also, through the binoculars of time, people may have changed their views on a given release. Further, living in a country where most music is not easily available, I have to do much buying via mail order and at the point I'm ready to put together a list of things to order, I might also ask for reminders on what's worth having, even though it might not be this month's latest release. I * --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: idm-unsubscribe@hyperreal.org For additional commands, e-mail: idm-help@hyperreal.org