Kind of a bourgeois question but whatever. People do actually listen to these radio stations. They will actively seek out radio stations that really do just play the same five or ten rock hits from the seventies, maybe mixed with some modern garbage. Why do they do this? What is going through their minds on the conscious and unconscious levels?
Internet radio stations can be quite good for discovering new music.
I discovered that, contrary to my one experience at a club I was there to listen to minimalist techno, math rock actually fucking slaps via some random station that kept playing it
I have a handful of solid university radio stations in my area, so that’s what I usually listen to in the car (the rare moments where I get to choose).
Remembering all the “huh, that was cool” stuff to check later is a separate problem that I’m ok with lmao