Why do we stop listening to new music as we get older?

@clearthinker You nailed it. 
You broke it down perfectly in terms of the machinations of distribution today compared to the past. Your comment on how relatively unrewarding it is seeking out new music today compared to the past was insightful.  
People are less likely to keep doing something when their efforts are so often unrewarded.  
Sometimes, my good faith efforts to seek out diamonds in the rough feels like something of a punishing experience. 
Just because the sea is bigger doesn’t mean finding a good fish is easier.  
The opposite is likely true.  
@dayglow I’m as anti-religion as it gets. I only considered the “religious side” of Bach’s music after I’d already been convinced of his genius. Did some reading after, research, etc…that stuff ended up having no bearing for me on his music at all. Especially when I understood the context of a musician in the early 1700s.
Some of my very favorite artists made no qualms regarding their religious piety.  
The Carter Family, Hank Williams, Smokey Robinson, Stevie Wonder, to name a small few. My favorite comedian, Norm Macdonald, is another.  
I have a ton of gospel records from the ‘40s to the ‘70s (from something like ‘Jesus Hits Like the Atom Bomb’ by the Charming Bells in ‘49 to ‘Like a Ship’ by Pastor T.L. Barrett and His Youth for Christ Choir in ‘71) and it is some of my favorite music.
 

@simonmoon What are the sources from which you are exposed to so much great new music?

@ahuvia How do age-related neurological changes affect one’s propensity to seek out new music?

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@tylermunns How do age-related neurological changes affect one’s propensity to seek out new music?

”One of the things most people lose as they age, is the search for, and love of novel experiences.

This is due to some of the changes in aging brains.”

I don’t see here an actual answer to my question or any actual scientific evidence in this answer to support the idea that people stop seeking out new music in advanced age due to “neurological changes.”
I don’t dismiss the idea on its face, but I prefer people cite empirical evidence when they make big, sweeping statements of scientific fact.

There is an older couple (at least in their 70s if I had to guess) in my community that are seen at most of the music and art shows in town, be them at art galleries or less-than-swanky bars. These shows may present art/music of wildly differing sorts, yet, there they are, dressed to the nines, gettin’ down and eagerly seeking out new art frequently, 12 months out of the year (nasty Alaskan weather be damned).

I understand that anecdote I just provided may be the exception to the norm, but I am still without data or empirical evidence to support the idea that neurological changes are (at least partially) responsible for people “giving up” on new music/experiences.