theSoulfulMofo
Rock n' Roll Doggie Band-aid
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- Aug 13, 2001
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Back in college, I used to own a crappy boom box with probably 30 CDs. I'd listen to most of them from first track to last. I have never been the kind of person to listen to one song over and over. When I buy a CD, the album as a whole has to rock. And when I listened to an album, I would listen to it from beginning to end over and over. By then, I knew every track for every song.
By my third year in college, my CD collection racked up to a little over 100, and I was living in a 10'x10' rental room. I always hated the mainstream radio format, and I got sick of listening to the same artist for an hour. I wanted variety, but I didn't want to insert and take out CDs after every song played. So I got a part-time job and spent my first paycheck on a 50 CD jukeboxminihometheatresystemwithDolbyProLogic.
Dolby ProLogic is good for me, because I could turn it up pretty loud on a spaced-out level, and it won't go through the walls to annoy my neighbors. That, and my ears hurted a lot less.
I was listening to music every minute of the day. Whenever I was in my room. Whatever I was doing.
Now I think I own too much music, 500+ CDs catalogued in my computer database, excluding CD-Rs. The reason I say this, is that I don't listen through my new CDs as much. It's not that I'm not discrete in my CD buying selection. It's that when I put my new CD in my jukebox and listen through a few times during the week, and then the next week I'm playing music on my jukebox as usual ON SHUFFLE... I don't recognize most of the new songs, because I don't listen to one album over and over as I used to.... I can't always recognize the artist, I don't know what these songs are called, I don't even know what track the song's on or which album is playing...
Too Much Music Is Bad.
By my third year in college, my CD collection racked up to a little over 100, and I was living in a 10'x10' rental room. I always hated the mainstream radio format, and I got sick of listening to the same artist for an hour. I wanted variety, but I didn't want to insert and take out CDs after every song played. So I got a part-time job and spent my first paycheck on a 50 CD jukeboxminihometheatresystemwithDolbyProLogic.
Dolby ProLogic is good for me, because I could turn it up pretty loud on a spaced-out level, and it won't go through the walls to annoy my neighbors. That, and my ears hurted a lot less.
I was listening to music every minute of the day. Whenever I was in my room. Whatever I was doing.
Now I think I own too much music, 500+ CDs catalogued in my computer database, excluding CD-Rs. The reason I say this, is that I don't listen through my new CDs as much. It's not that I'm not discrete in my CD buying selection. It's that when I put my new CD in my jukebox and listen through a few times during the week, and then the next week I'm playing music on my jukebox as usual ON SHUFFLE... I don't recognize most of the new songs, because I don't listen to one album over and over as I used to.... I can't always recognize the artist, I don't know what these songs are called, I don't even know what track the song's on or which album is playing...
Too Much Music Is Bad.