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Aux@lemmy.world 7 months agoIt was rarely curated. You just listen to the radio, hear some cool tunes, buy the albums of the artists, the end.
jae@reddthat.com 7 months ago
That’s what I meant by curated! Taking the effort to buy some cool songs/albums of songs you liked. Is there a connotation to “curation” that I don’t know about?
shikitohno@lemm.ee 7 months ago
I think curation implies more depth and selectivity to the collection and perhaps a certain amount of active effort to obtain and maintain it. You’re talking about hearing a song you like on the radio and clicking “buy,” where the sort of person who would talk about their curated library would spend their weekends digging through crates looking for the final LP released on some random record label in 1985 they need to complete their collection of what is, to them, the pinnacle of early house music as released in Yugoslavia prior to the fall of the USSR. Even if it’s not as hyper-specific as that example, I would expect them to at least have things meticulously tagged and organized.
jae@reddthat.com 7 months ago
That’s fair. But then what is the word for what I am talking of? Just simply “collecting”? But could that also have a connotation of a person who’s into collecting music as a hobby, like what you’re saying for “curated”?
shikitohno@lemm.ee 7 months ago
I wouldn’t really say it’s anything beyond normal consumption, just like I wouldn’t say someone who buys a hat or jersey once every few years when they see a sporting event live has a sports memorabilia collection. Sure, technically, any quantity of something united can count as a collection, but I think plenty of purchasing just falls within the normal bounds of average consumption and doesn’t rise to the level of meriting a special term for it.