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Grow­ing up in sub­ur­ban New Jer­sey, it required a lot of work to learn about new music. Record buy­ing trips to New York City were my surest method of locat­ing releases that I may have heard men­tion of, but never actu­ally saw in stores. The sit­u­a­tion is very dif­fer­ent now, of course, but in high school, I was still a few years away from even dis­cov­er­ing Usenet news­groups and Mosaic was a nov­elty. My musi­cal curios­ity couldn't be sat­is­fied eas­ily for rea­sons of age, loca­tion or bud­get. The record indus­try may bemoan the explo­sion of music on the inter­net, but it has become much eas­ier for music lovers to dis­cover new or his­tor­i­cally over­looked music. Before, "Google" was not yet a verb, and research often required gas money.