Whilst I was cleaning the hob in the kitchen I wondered how it would seem less like I was agreeing with you and more like I was sticking to my original comment. I was meaning in my initial post how the music industry is quite opportunistic and when the general pop music sound gets too grating and something new breaks through (consider how little albums like Up The Bracket and Funeral originally sold under the Rough Trade label), then their reputations received massive and resounding response several years later. The music industry is not solely record companies, but the industries that help to promote record companies as well, including big time magazines and television shows. All I was trying to say is how over time something manages to come along (like a film like Napoleon Dynamite in terms of film) that is not so ordinary and gets everybody buzzing around it. And it may have been that before then there was not a little dedication but very sincere at that in following these not so popular items of culture. I used the Funeral example because it seemed like everybody would understand quite what I meant.
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