[jrecyclebin]

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]

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.