What if I'm just more interested in all the other years of music before that, because it's much easier to find extraordinary artists when looking further back?
I agree, i bought only two records from last year, there's a huge amount of older records i don't have that interest me more. And i always get suspicious of people who buy a couple of new records every week, that gives me the feeling they buy just to be able to say which albums they have rather than that they actually listen to the records very much. When i buy a new album i can listen to it for several weeks in a row if i like it.