They were more an interest than an obsession. I always quite liked them but never had any mates that were into them like other bands through the years, which (pre places like this) made discussing them, sharing opinions and certainly seeing them live pretty much out of the question. To put it succinctly, they were always on my radar but I never really got into them in a big way.
The MP3 revolution is a handy way of revisiting stuff, like AiC, that I never gave enough eartime to in the past. Which is handy cos most contemporary music is garbage.