Something I did a few years ago was buy a thing on eBay of 300 random CDs for like $10.

Most of the CDs were unsurprisingly stuff that was pretty common, but I would occasionally find a few artists that I had never heard of that I ended up really liking, like "Hoss" by Lagwagon.

I haven't done this in awhile, but I might do it again soonish. It was fun digging through all the CDs to find stuff I ended up actually liking.

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jrecyclebin an hour ago | parent [-]

Found a favorite band through a similar technique: pile of CDs given from a friend who worked at a music store and no one wanted them.

You have to be willing to sift through junk. Which I think is hard for many to accept. However, the algorithms are often giving you junk anyway. Kind of no way around it.

	▲	tombert 21 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		Yeah, most of the CDs there were pretty unremarkable; a lot of them were unsurprisingly stuff that was extremely popular (since those have the most CDs available). A lot of the stuff that wasn't extremely popular was pretty bad. Still, in that 300, there was about ~30 albums that I hadn't hear of that I ended up really liking. Took awhile to sift through them all, which is why I haven't done it again, but it was a fun experiment all the same.