It also feels like these things are making me more musically illiterate.
You see enough Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Imaginal Discs and the twenty yearly Trhä albums as super highly praised and something every music nerd should listen to, and forget what kind of music most people actually like... which if you go by the spotify charts, is a lot of slop! And if you go by the radio, it's mostly the same stuff since 1995.
This was easily the worst part of being in rehab. Everybody had horrible fucking taste in music. I got exposed to so many pop artists I had never heard of before, and they all sucked. Especially being in recovery, everybody fucking loved Jelly Roll, I had to listen to so much fucking Jelly Roll