Comment by user_7832

+1. A friend's pendrive full of songs was how I actually bothered to get "into" many artists that until then I didn't really care about.

Somewhat related re: discovery, it was also fun to download what was available rather than what you wanted. I got iridescent (linkin park) instead of some other track I was searching for (probably what I've done), and I learnt Dire Straits also had a song called "So far away", only after downloading it. (I was looking for the avenged sevenfold's track of the same name.)