I completely agree with you. Before tech inserted itself into everything, you had to buy physical albums. Economically not as advantageous as today’s model but it forced you to listen to what you had repeatedly so that you would either know it deeply or get rid of it. It made every album you owned valuable.

Compare that to today when you can spend 10 bucks a month for Apple Music and have instant access to basically the entirety of recorded western music. Its information overload and devalues music by making it accessible to the point of worthlessness. Why listen to an album twice when there are millions more you can listen to afterwards?

The record label model definitely wasn’t perfect but at least we weren’t lining the pockets of tech assholes like we are today. And the musicians making the actual art are still the ones getting screwed.

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>>129566211
oh hey i have that bass. sucks being a poorfag
>How can you really enjoy a new album every single day?
you can't and it's not the point
it's something of a brute force search actually
since most of all music ever made is trash
looking for the really good stuff takes effort and again is akin to looking through the trash
1/10 at best of the albums i listen to is worth a relisten, and sometimes i speficially avoid relistening to them outside of special moments as to not squeeze all the juice out. happened to Kayo Dot's debut for me. never again

>>129566211
this only works if you already know that you're going to like an album before you listen to it. which probably means your taste in music is not worth engaging with.

I listen to music all day everyday pretty much. There's so much variety as to not get bored at all. I can go from brahms to a jungle mix to a jazz album or whatever suits my fancy. I'm just utterly obsessed with music i'm either making it or listening to it.

>>129566211
bump

>>129567318
Not really. Once you've properly acquainted yourself with a few good albums, you should be able to tell what aspects of it that speak most to you. This is what requires repeated listening, since you need to discover about yourself what it is you really like best, and you need to identify and conceptualize what it is you like about it. All to reference what to look for next.

>>129567188
>i speficially avoid relistening to them outside of special moments as to not squeeze all the juice out. happened to Kayo Dot's debut for me. never again
you can 'grow out' of some music, but truly good music is always going to be good. you can spoil the type of innocent enjoyment through overexposure, sure. but just give it enough time, wait for the right setting and you can definitely recapture the love in essence.

>>129567318
>if you already know that you're going to like an album before you listen to it
You didn't really get my point. What I'm saying is that it takes time and repeated listening to truly know whether you like something (a lot). I'm not saying you have to be a corksniffer for its own sake. If it really sucks on first listen, you probably shouldn't bother. But how can you trust your 'first listens' if you've never structurally discovered what you really like in music?
Now you're talking about what to listen to next, when what logically follows is that you'll never truly know if you enjoy what comes next without properly knowing what you do like. Which takes time. And so does exploring the next thing.

>>129566211
You can listen to a new album every day and still listen to other albums multiple times. What kind of thread is this?
Albums are usually 30 minutes to an hour long, it's rarely a fucking 2 hour commitment.

>>129567188
>i have that bass
Not poorfag but I'm a self-imposed asceticismfag, is it good for the price?

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>>129572927
quick poorfag/frugal bass review:
the active circuitry on the model i got was kind of finnicky and since i hate active circuitry already i took off everything and connected each pickups to a selection switch and two tone/volume knob pairs. it sounds good to me but im not the greatest bass player or producer or whatever. besides, just playing over the bridge pickup or the neck pickup provides immense timbral difference for me so it's good enough already even if you're not switching pickups all the time.
the body shape is comfortable enough and upper fret acess is fine. didnt have much trouble playing higher up in the board and I assume you'd enjoy that since it's a 6 string, why bother with 6 strings if you're not gonna play in the upper register and drive guitarists mad? has a little bit of neck dive but not enough to piss me off while playing
neck profile is some shallow U shape that felt a little weird and flat at first but now I got used to it, honestly I cant picture a 6 string bass having a massive round neck without it being impossible to play.
i guess i dont love it but its fine. at the time it was the best (seemingly the only usable) 6 string in its price range but that was years ago, i dunno how it is nowadays
if youre used to 6 strings already dont bother, if youre just getting started with extended range basses though id say its perfect since it's a light investment and its an okay instrument
if youre on a 3rd world shithole try looking into national brands or luthiers instead of importing some indonesian ibanez since you might get more bang for the buck, import taxes will always fuck you up

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>>129572508
>you can 'grow out' of some music, but truly good music is always going to be good
I have grown out of a lot of tunes that I still revisit for the sake of nostalgia once in a while. I feel a little embarrassed listening to them admitedly but the effect of being kicked back in time by a tune will always a be a magical thing must I relish in once in a while. Mostly video game soundtracks from when i was a kid/teen, but also some radio hits of the time. On an intellectual level I know it's not good, but sometimes that particular flavor of badness is just what I need. But the issue is when you know a piece of music is good and you remember how it once made you feel but you have worn it out
>you can spoil the type of innocent enjoyment through overexposure, sure. but just give it enough time, wait for the right setting and you can definitely recapture the love in essence.
This is more or less what i was talking about, yeah
When I first found about that kayo dot thing I said earlier i listened to it basically every day, the thing just fit, it felt like if that the music grew like a tumor and replaced everything that existed it would just be fine. Eventually I came to know every nook and cranny of the album and I don't think i could extract more from it unless I did something weird to the tracks like eqing it or listening to it on a different sound system. Spent a year without listening to it, listened to it again and felt nothing, except for the crushing feeling that feeling nothing was a result of me having ruined something precious, maybe I worn out the damned thing from "relying" on it too much. I dunno, but never again
Nowadays if I find something really special I'll listen to it 3 or 4 times just to be sure and then shelf it for when I really need it. Maybe it's some schizo way of listening to music but I'm not running any risks

>>129573020
Thanks for the review.
Okay yeah, I will keep the circuit active for the signal boost but won't use the active EQ boost. I have the 4-string model from the same series.
Can I ask from what years yours is and if you know what woods were used and the country of manufacture? As I said, I have the 4-string and it's the worst built Indenesian one, with unfinished body wood, crappiest wood in general (treated pine board).
And what genres broadly speaking do you play with it?

>>129566211
I've found that the ways people listen to music are just as diverse as the genres and styles of music itself. Some insist on listening to it all the time, to the point of it being almost constantly on rise-to-rest. Some literally only turn on Top 40 radio when they're working/doing chores/at the gym to distract themselves. I knew a dad who almost exclusively listened to goregrind or Northern European black metal, ONLY in the car, very loudly-- said he didn't want his kids picking up the genre or the habit. I have a coworker who doesn't listen to anything if he's feeling sad or down, says it's bad luck to try new things in a poor mood. I had one who exclusively listened to city pop, post-rock, and vaporwave, all on cassette; real big analog media enthusiast. People are strange, different. Three people go through the same tribulation or set of circumstances, and take away five different conclusions or tendencies from the ordeal. One man's de-stresser is another's cortisol spiker. The way they listen is as personal as how they eat, sleep, or walk.

>>129573206
OP's post is obviously aimed at people who might fancy themselves as having developed, critical tastes. Who have more to say than 'I like the air, the riffs, the beat', etc. For them, it should make no sense to engage in the musical equivalent of speed-reading books to get through your reading assignments with a C in English class. They have all the time in the world left to enjoy music and if they really thought they were listening to good art it would be worth listening to it repeatedly on a regular basis. A quick listen will them if it's 'okay' but only attentive, prolonged listens can really cement that to 'great'.

>>129573180
>Can I ask from what years yours is and if you know what woods were used and the country of manufacture?
Found the one I have, it's this:
https://ibanez.fandom.com/wiki/GSR256B
Discontinued in 2018 although I got it a little later than that. Not even made in Indonesia, China instead. What a shame, that might be even worse than indonesian actually
Neck is maple and the fretboard is rosewood, both of which I believe. Apparently the body is made in mahogany, I find that a little harder to believe but it's what's on the page. The finish is this darker stain you can see in the picture that could very well mask some other cheaper wood and I'd be none the wiser. It's a little weird to me that the actual (advertised) woods seem to be alright while everything else is just meh but oh well, still works as an entry level instrument
If you have the 4 string model equivalent of this one then you already know what to expect, it's just a little more unwieldy thanks to the extra strings and weird changes to technique you might have to go through (like floating thumb for muting since just anchoring your finger on the pickup might not be enough to navigate all 6 strings cleanly)
>And what genres broadly speaking do you play with it?
I dig 70s fusion (think Weather Report, Tony Williams and Patitucci, in fact I went for 6 strings because of him) and pretentious gay metal music which I heard the people call prog. Shit like Cynic or Gordian Knot and whatever. I mostly try to emulate the late Sean Malone (as if it were even possible) but I'm too poor and unskilled to buy and operate a decent fretless so the bass you see is the best I can do, although playing over the bridge pickup with the brige pickup active has given me convincing tones
think 3:00 of this tune https://youtu.be/4v-Zkh4xhnc
or 6:40 of this tune https://youtu.be/6maAvM8M6Kw
Of course I'm an amateur and haven't played in an also amateur band for years so the shit that flies for me might not fly with you

>>129573536
Thanks for the info. Autistic tech death is exactly the kind of stuff I want it for. Plus it looks cool wrestling such a large instrument strapped a bit higher up.