>>3021>I've largely lost interest in music with vocals. With the few exceptions being gothic, new wave and coldwave.The thing with vocals is that they're kind of a compositional crutch. I like vocal music and all, but you can get away with doing a lot less just by having vocals and most people will overlook it. There's a lot of music that doesn't sound so great anymore if you just remove the vocals, and it's been that way for a long time. I think turning a song into an instrumental can be a good test of gauging the quality of a piece of music, at least as far as traits like melody are concerned.
>I used to love metal, but nowadays I find it boring to listen to some bands that I loved more than ten years ago.Same, but I also find it kind of hard to find metal that connects with me like the music I got into when I was younger that I still enjoy. I only really like old bands, but even then a lot of the albums praised as classic I'm not that into. It's easier to continue listening to metal I'm already familiar with and enjoy and then listen to other genres where I'm more likely to like a given track.
>>3150It's pathetic. Relying on those services is just putting an unnecessary middleman between the listener and the music. Why would you put yourself at the mercy of a party that shouldn't be there in the first place? It's not like it's that hard to use Soulseek or torrents. I'll even resort to ripping music off JewTube if I have to.
>>3151>Some albums or songs grow on you. I'll always download the full thing, it's not like it costs anything.Same. Hard drive space isn't much of an issue for me these days.