Really, you would be better off simply listening to music that you independently like, rather than spending finite resources to change your aesthetic preferences in a different arbitrary direction, and that cost is the consequence.
This assumes that the cost of finding music that appeals to one’s innate preferences is lower than the cost of changing those preferences to match what’s commonly available. This is not necessarily the case—in fact, I generally find it not to be. (Pandora music service’s AI comes close, but it can still only play music that’s actually been produced and entered into its database, and even in that case it takes a fair amount of effort to teach the AI what I like in each general category of music that I like, plus I suspect it’s incapable of learning certain nuances like ‘I only like this instrument when it’s paired with one of these other instruments’.)
Although there may be people who never heard a piece of music that they actually liked, while still having the ability to like some music, I thought such cases are so rare that they can be disregarded. I generally dislike most of the modern music (where “modern” means something like “less than 50 years old”), and have no problem to find something which fits my preferences. In purely financial costs, non-fashionable music is probably much cheaper.
This assumes that the cost of finding music that appeals to one’s innate preferences is lower than the cost of changing those preferences to match what’s commonly available. This is not necessarily the case—in fact, I generally find it not to be. (Pandora music service’s AI comes close, but it can still only play music that’s actually been produced and entered into its database, and even in that case it takes a fair amount of effort to teach the AI what I like in each general category of music that I like, plus I suspect it’s incapable of learning certain nuances like ‘I only like this instrument when it’s paired with one of these other instruments’.)
Although there may be people who never heard a piece of music that they actually liked, while still having the ability to like some music, I thought such cases are so rare that they can be disregarded. I generally dislike most of the modern music (where “modern” means something like “less than 50 years old”), and have no problem to find something which fits my preferences. In purely financial costs, non-fashionable music is probably much cheaper.