it used to be quite difficult to find new music , if they didn't play it on radio 1 you didn't know about it , most of the early bands I got into were from word of mouth , nobody was going to go into our price and spend £10 on a maybe but Spotify and Tidal have changed all that
I used to be a bit like this thread in the 80s , I'd record a mix tape to play in the car then find I'd put most of the same songs on as the last one .
Now if I'm working I just pick a genre and let it play whatever comes up , I got a good deal on O2 which includes 100gb of data so Tidal is set to hifi even when I'm off wifi , there's a definite improvement