I've had this happen. My desktop was utterly destroyed by a virus (I think, anyway), with absolutely no way to retrieve anything. I had to wipe it clean, and since I'm a dumbass and didn't back it up I lost over 80 gigs of music, about half of it that I hadn't listened to. I was completely addicted to downloading a few albums a day, so there was no way I was ever going to get through it all. About the same time, my iPod failed for reasons I still haven't figured out, and the Auxillary jack screwed up, so even if it worked, I couldn't listen to music. It turned out to be cheaper to buy a brand new iPod than to fix it, so I just gave up.
Because of this, I went into a musical hibernation stage for awhile, and listened to almost only CD's, and only in my car. On the computer, I was forced to find some way to listen to music that would also Scrobble to my Last.FM, which led me to discovering Grooveshark, a website that lets you stream TONS of albums. Groovesark turned out to be so awesome that even though I've gotten a laptop and fixed my desktop, I still mostly use Grooveshark. But now I've been given a used 32 gig iPod touch, so I guess it's time to start "owning" digital music again.
EDIT- And on the original topic, I guess it freed up my musical tastes... I mean, I have no idea what was on my hard drive, so I just started looking at completely new, different music. So I guess when my computer was destroyed it actually made me stuck in a rut, since I had to rely only on CD's that I already owned or bought. I bought a lot of used CD's in those months.
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