Buying Music When You Have No Idea What It Will Sound Like

Ghost Hip · Post by **Ghost Hip** » Wed Mar 16, 2011 1:32 am

My friend and I went into f.y.e with intent to find a band we'd never heard of and bought this CD used for $3. We assumed it'd be electronica/ambient or space rock or something. We put the Cd in our car stereo and out same this fuzzy distorted hardcore punk riff... completely unexpected. The CD has 9 tracks and it was finished by the time we got home. Although it was hardcore punk there were sections where 4 or 5 guitars are going at once in a noisy break/interlude which aligns with the CD's spacey art. Almost as if it had a bit of shoegaze influence. Totally awesome, and one of the best purchases I've made recently. :joy:

Artist: Spacehorse, Album: Spacehorse

kbit · Post by **kbit** » Wed Mar 16, 2011 1:54 am

I've always wanted to do this, but then I cheat and listen to them in store and I've never liked them.
Also, I love that my record store lets anyone listen to any CD before they buy. So sweet.

aen · Post by **aen** » Wed Mar 16, 2011 1:55 am

A good way to LOSE.
EXAMPLE: NEw Radiohead.

morange · Post by **morange** » Wed Mar 16, 2011 5:02 am

I bought a CD without listening to it, once, just to try it. It was a CD by some band called the Silver Jews. Never again. I threw it away when I got home.

jfrey · Post by **jfrey** » Wed Mar 16, 2011 9:10 am

I do this all the time. I have found so many good albums.

Last ones were Songs for the Disappeared, by Kevin Hufnagel, Old One, by Old One, FUCKERFUCKER, by Devi Ever, and Constellations, by Balmorhea.

unownunown · Post by **unownunown** » Wed Mar 16, 2011 9:32 am

i do this sometimes. i hit gold like every fucking time!

examples: DIRTY PROJECTORS. GRIZZLY BEAR!

although i usually pick up stuff that i vaguely remember people mentioning but haven't listened to yet, so maybe i'm cheating.

Ghost Hip · Post by **Ghost Hip** » Wed Mar 16, 2011 12:51 pm

aen wrote:A good way to LOSE.
EXAMPLE: NEw Radiohead.

I'm talking bands you've never heard of. You have a preconceived idea of what Radiohead sounds like.

Cody_Pole · Post by **Cody_Pole** » Wed Mar 16, 2011 12:58 pm

I used to do this but then I started working at a record store.

mathias · Post by **mathias** » Wed Mar 16, 2011 1:59 pm

I bought a CD from a cute girl once. Because she was really cute and selling them, and it had a cool cover. In the process of the transaction she mentions that the lead singer is her boyfriend. :grumpy:

I get home and it's horrible, horrible screamo that they have randomly inserted sax samples into instead of guitar solos. :?:

Threw it out.

Ghost Hip · Post by **Ghost Hip** » Wed Mar 16, 2011 3:35 pm

mathias wrote:I bought a CD from a cute girl once. Because she was really cute and selling them, and it had a cool cover. In the process of the transaction she mentions that the lead singer is her boyfriend. I get home and it's horrible, horrible screamo that they have randomly inserted sax samples into instead of guitar solos. Threw it out.

Lesson learned. don't buy CDs from cute and persuasive members of the opposite sex.

Cody_Pole · Post by **Cody_Pole** » Wed Mar 16, 2011 3:47 pm

I think with the advent of the internet its become something of a lost art.

mathias · Post by **mathias** » Wed Mar 16, 2011 3:50 pm

PumpkinPieces wrote:Lesson learned. don't buy CDs from cute and persuasive members of the opposite sex.

This has dictated my musical choices since then.

sonidero · Post by **sonidero** » Wed Mar 16, 2011 7:36 pm

aen wrote:A good way to LOSE.
EXAMPLE: NEw Radiohead.

pheww I thought I was the only one... Didn't buy it just don't get why the world has a cow every time they fart...

* edit... Oh yeah, hater...

nad · Post by **nad** » Wed Mar 16, 2011 7:39 pm

Back in the days before mp3, I used to buy albums based on how rad the cover artwork was. I should start doing that again...

sonidero · Post by **sonidero** » Wed Mar 16, 2011 7:48 pm

nad wrote:Back in the days before mp3, I used to buy albums based on how rad the cover artwork was. I should start doing that again...

I got a fair amount of these based on cover art or just by the instruments listed... After awhile you get good at finding unheard stuff you KNOW you'll like... I hope kids today still want album art...

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