About a week ago, I had all of these boss ideas for posts for the ER. But then, school happened, life happened, and I forgot what I wanted to say. eek.
One thing I've been noticing lately, though, is that I seem to have acquired an inability to get rid of music in my collection. I think I'm a musical pack-rat. There's loads of full albums that need to be purged from my music vault, but that I simply don't have the heart to toss out. Even worse, I don't seem to have the ability to break up albums either. For me, everything is digital now, so it would be so easy to simply keep the one or two good songs on an album and ditch the rest... but I can't. I simply can't bring myself to do it. There seems to be this issue of posterity that keeps coming up with me- that I want to keep everything that I can because it's all important somehow. This leads me to question: Am I building a music collection or a music library?
Maybe it's a library until I run out of space on the hard-drive, then it will become a collection...
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I feel ya mang.
The troube is - they keep making these very cheap external drives...oh mang.
I feel ya. I'm going to have to start a scheduled pruning soon - it's easy with non-album songs - you spin it and then if it's meh - it's gone. With albums its different you want to give the artist a fair shake...its so hard to decide sometimes...
and THEN the temptation is to get all completest about an artists. and that path leads to madness.
I vote collection - let amazon be the library....we need some refine plutonium collections in our lives - life's too short to deal with substandard music. wehreever the standard is.
For real. Easier said than done, though.
I realize I'm not actually building a library because I'm not just amassing music in general without regard to artist or genre- I think my problem is that I'm just too sentimental.
I just need to get drunk and go on a hack and slash mission....
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