OK, I didn't read TFA yet, but here's some anecdata for you:
I'm 50, and literally 15 minutes ago I'm on a conference call with some colleagues in Brasil, and while we were waiting for a pipeline to run, I started asking those guys about other Brazilian heavy metal bands (other than Sepultura) that I should listen to. They mentioned Sarcófago, and in the process of reading about Sarcófago on Wikipedia I discovered Ratos de Porão. So now I have two new bands to listen to as soon as I get a break where I'm not on a call.
I love discovering new music, both "new" in the sense of "just released" and in the "new to me" sense. For example, there are still plenty of old NWOBHM bands I have never listened to, and occasionally one will pop up and I'll discover them and just be thrilled to death.
Beyond that, I keep branching out into new genres. I grew up as mostly a metal-head (if you couldn't tell) but around 2000 or so I started listening to a lot of rap and hip-hop. Then I started getting into a lot of synthwave/retrowave/darkwave/horrosynth/etc. around 8-10 years ago. And I've picked up a little bit of interest in blues and jazz over the last year or two.
I dearly hope that for me, the answer to "when do I stop finding new music" is "when I am dead."
I'm just 40 but it sounds like we are like minded in a lot of ways. Never stop being curious. There's always something new out there. The joy of discovering some obscure metal band with 7 followers on Spotify or bandcamp that you intensely resonate with is unmatched. It's one of my favorite experiences.
One of the things I've learned about myself over the past decade is I'm an outlier in terms of the listener profile. I crave albums over songs. That crafted experience an artist creates for the listener makes it all for me. Perhaps it's because I'm also a musician, but something about a group of songs becoming greater than the sum of it's parts has an endearing, emotional impact on that listening session. I think a lot of playlist driven listening loses out on that.
I'm 50, and literally 15 minutes ago I'm on a conference call with some colleagues in Brasil, and while we were waiting for a pipeline to run, I started asking those guys about other Brazilian heavy metal bands (other than Sepultura) that I should listen to. They mentioned Sarcófago, and in the process of reading about Sarcófago on Wikipedia I discovered Ratos de Porão. So now I have two new bands to listen to as soon as I get a break where I'm not on a call.
I love discovering new music, both "new" in the sense of "just released" and in the "new to me" sense. For example, there are still plenty of old NWOBHM bands I have never listened to, and occasionally one will pop up and I'll discover them and just be thrilled to death.
Beyond that, I keep branching out into new genres. I grew up as mostly a metal-head (if you couldn't tell) but around 2000 or so I started listening to a lot of rap and hip-hop. Then I started getting into a lot of synthwave/retrowave/darkwave/horrosynth/etc. around 8-10 years ago. And I've picked up a little bit of interest in blues and jazz over the last year or two.
I dearly hope that for me, the answer to "when do I stop finding new music" is "when I am dead."