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Album 12, Feeder "Pushing The Senses"

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I picked this one for me. Feeder Pushing the Senses 2005 At some point in the early 2000s, I had grown bored of downloading music from UseNet (don't come for my illegal download of Vitamin Z , bro!) iTunes was in its infancy and I still didn't have much disposable cash to buy music anyway. The streaming services were also just starting, promising to help you discover new music. I decided to try them out to see if they did serve up stuff I was hitherto unfamiliar with. I don't recall what I used, maybe Rhapsody? But I liked the basic concept of "enter something you like and we'll serve up more stuff you like based on what others who liked what you first liked like." Sadly, I quickly learned that most people like a thing and then want more of that thing, apparently. (Alternatively, I might have learned that algorithms are bad and rarely serve up what someone really wants.) Me, I like a thing and then like a completely different thing but surely there m