Go to the alley garbage can of record stores

Sent a letter to join the patrician council

>>64372469
Having actual friends that listen to alternative music.

>>64372469
They used alternative methods

>>64372502
wasn't record distribution way worse back then?

>>64372532
what are the membership requirements?

>>64372534
that makes sense. but where did said friends heard about it?

>>64372563
such as?

College radio stations
Going to "weird" record stores and buying albums/zines
Going to the right venues and seeing the bands

It was mostly people in their immediate area that knew about "alternative" bands back then.

>>64372469
They looked for it instead of making "le spoonfeed me" threads on /mu/.

>>64372469
Music press, documentaries, MTV, music shows, old grey whistle test, the tube, the chart show etc.

>>64372613
magazines

buying random tapes

MTV

>>64372469
By actually doing their own research and putting some effort into it instead of just begging for charts, recommendations and download links on 4chan.
Pretty nuts, innit?

>>64372469
magazines, radio stations, posters, shows, actually being social and talking about or making music with others

>>64372469
buying compilation albums that feature several different artists

the record store
cool radio stations
college
magazines
shows

>>64372469
>How did people find out about alternative music back in the pre-internet days?


Basically it worked like this
>Guy discover some current mainstream band or discover old mainstream band by old people or friends and etc.. that discovered them with old people
>he listen to the sound and think its the best thing on this universe, since he knew only an ultra tiny group of bands, some band being classified as the "sound of god" is not a hard thing
>he decides to try to play this type of sound
>make a band with friends.
>show music to friends not on the band
>PS: this make his friends discover his band
>while making live shows where multiple bands will play at the same day, he discover other bands
>if his friends go to his shows because they like the band, or just to give him support, they will discover those bands playing there too.
>Some of those bands influence their friends to start making music too and new bands are created that the band and their friends will discover
now the bands itself playing non mainstream genres is the tricky part and basically goes like this
>some of the guys of those bands really like some specific part of song and focus on this aspect of it and create a new genre by doing it
>others will try to get famous and will try to make the next hit by trying to focus on stuff they believed made the songs a hit, this happened alot with electronic music
>some love hard mainstream songs and after some amount of time get bored of it and think its not hard enought, they try to make harder things and so create music on non mainstream genres.


At the time you needed specific buttlefly effects to happen to make you know bands.

Now with internet, you need just one and with it you will discover many bands

>>64376031
>>64375351
>>64375299
>>64375352
These.

>>64377373
Not this.

Fuck millenials.

>>64378080
>Not this.
>Fuck millenials.
Your age?