Speaking as someone who spends a good chunk of his time writing
about music, I'd love to think that most people come to find music
they like by fairly direct means. Like reading about it. Boy, that
would make me feel good. But you and I both know that although it
happens that way some of the time (enough of the time to keep me
doing what I do), we music lovers often come to find new things we
like by more circuitous routes. Like how I came to learn that I
very much like BT (real name Brian Wayne
Transeau): his song
Never Gonna Come Back Down
(
) was featured on the soundtrack for
Gone In 60
Seconds, a movie I never saw but once gave away the soundtrack
record as a lowly radio promotions intern. Mike Doughty, now
well-known enough as a solo artist but then famous only to hardcore
Soul Coughing fans, is featured on the track and thus was mentioned
on the CD's cover. A hardcore fan I was indeed, and so I went about
finding a way to hear the track when I got home that night. Not an
easy task, mind you, because although such times seem prehistoric,
a few years ago it was much harder than it is now to just hear
anything you wanted to on the Internet (legally).
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