Fandom joys.

[hannah]

Another reason I bemoan the loss of downloadable fanmixes: there's no longer the delight of looking over the ones I grabbed on impulse years, sometimes decades ago, and discovering songs I've been wanting to listen to and didn't even know I had. You can't get that sort of happenstance with streaming services.

I don't even remember where most of these came from, never mind who made them. I remember recognizing one song or another, thinking they'd be a good way to dive into new artists. And what do you know, I was right. Not all of them, but enough of them gave me something - Voxtrot, Sons of the Never Wrong, Great Big Sea, The National - that I can't look back on those impulses with any regret. Not even a little.

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[linaelyn]

Same story, different version, and all are true.

Vienna Teng. Smashing Pumpkins. Radiohead. Snow Patrol. Plus all of your list.

Oh yeah, and pretty much al the bands of Bandom. Lol.

[yourlibrarian]

Yes, plus it's also a question of getting the streaming services to work for you, vs running downloads on your own software.

[ljwrites]

Yeah, I got a great fanmix for my fic as part of WIP Big Bang that I plan to rip/download for these reasons, but it's too much effort to do regularly. :/

[jadelennox]

Last night I was actually playing cassettes and feeling musically nostalgic, so I feel you.