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Originally Posted by Minstrel
Music magazine culture is to being a music fan as organized religion is to being spiritual. You can be into music or spirituality through your own exploration...the organized culture is for feeling a part of a society (with the attendant us-vs-them mentality).
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That's a really good point there. I think a lot of those dreaded "top 100" lists are meant to reassure people that they don't need to look past their already existing Beatles collections for music.