the drop-off with DJ Shadow is really strange... I don't understand it, but ultimately I think he's just making what he wants to and doesn't give a fuck what people think. And that's cool. It's probably because of an attitude like that that he ended up making something revolutionary like Endtroducing. I don't really like listening to his post-Endtroducing music that I've heard, but I'll always give it a chance.

People frequently make it seem like listening to someone's album, or even skimming through it, is some huge arduous task... and fuck that. Musicians spend years working on an album, and then you have listeners acting like they should get a paycheck just to be bothered to listen to it.