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| From | "Stewart Mason" <craigtorso@verizon.net> |
| Subject | Re: % |
| Date | Sat, 13 Jan 2007 13:47:13 -0500 |
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> Just something I've been thinking about.
>
> A) What percentage of your CD's or music collection will you NOT
> listen to again in the next 5 years but you hold onto them?
>
> B) What percentage will you NEVER listen to again but you hold onto
> them?
>
> C) What does that mean to you if anything?
Hm. I could have answered these question far more precisely three or
four years ago, but frankly, technology has changed my listening
habits so much that I'm not sure I can answer in the same way.
For one thing, I have moved so emphatically to listening to music on
my computer and on my iPod that I own albums that I have listened to
dozens of times although the ONLY time I've ever handled the disc
itself was when I ripped it onto my hard drive. I put a load of CDs
into the changer in the living room for our New Year's Day open house
last week and I couldn't even remember the last time I'd listened to
anything down there.
What this means is that while I don't listen to the DISCS themselves
very often, I'm actually listening to a much greater variety of music
now because it's so easy to simply shuffle through and discover and
re-discover things.
Furthermore, my last few months on Lala (or as Gary Littleton knows
it, The Great Satan) has caused me to cull several hundred discs out
of my collection in trade for things I'm more interested in hearing,
which is terrific. My main criterion for deciding whether I want to
get rid of something there is "Okay, have I listened to this since I
moved to Boston?" (five years in March), and if I can't remember
having done so, off it goes. It's been a great benefit in helping me
break the Collector habit.
S
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