I love obscure music so much. Part of it is that I love finding things that no one else knows about. It's kind of a discovery, a sense of adventure. There's something magical about finding a band that has only five Google hits, or listening to something that you know that no one in this country listens to.

But not only that, the most obscure stuff is almost always the best stuff EVER. The mainstream-mainstream can only accept a very few of what gets made, and often those are the ones deemed the most likely to sell for whatever reason. Things that would keep music from selling in a mainstream manner include mental illness, semi-premanent address, lack of indentifiable material aside from vague pictures that may or may not be of the artist, crackpottery,