Is Too Much Info Wrecking the Fun of New Music?

Oh I like buying stuff deaf (heh, blind doesn't seem right). But then I don't download MP3's. 50% of the music I buy from just browsing in a record shop and thinking this looks like it might be cool.

i can't really afford to buy deaf/blind, and i don't download (mostly a limitation of my technology but i'll pretend it's about the 'principle' when it suits me), so i end up making a lot of 'safe' purchases, people i already own stuff by, etc. i always manage to find new bands, though, but mostly i've just been buying old stuff i know i like and need in my collection

i don't think it's so much the 'info' itself that's a problem, if anything it's the opposite; even the most overhyped band still is described by more or less everyone with the same 4 or 5 adjectives and comparisons, with generic bio stats.

I go into a record store and grab the stuff that either visually grabs or eludes me, then I sample it. (I buy a lot of music, and nobody seems to mind it when I ask to listen to perhaps five or six at a time.) I find that this is the best way to find music. The internet is handy, though I don't own my own computer. What's more, I never get 'buyer's regret', even though I am poor.

Information about music is great--nowadays, there is so much more stuff out there, what with affordable recording devices, instruments, etc. so it is vital that there be more information in order for the new music to thrive.

the weird thing is, theres not enough information. huge lists of stuff ive never heard and never will!