Music Hoarder?
 

I was looking through my music library trying to get rid of songs that i never listen to or i just don't like off of my computer but as much as i try to clean up my music library deleting song after song i find myself downloading MORE songs right after. I feel like a person thats addicted to shopping once i start i just can't stop ...if that makes any sense (it does in my head XD) I call myself a music hoarder because i have tons and tons of songs on my computer that i just don't listen to or i will pass by a song in my library and think...oh one day i will listen to it or what if i wanna listen to it and its not there!

Who else has had this problem?

I did. Two years ago, I hit the 13,000 mark, which was a TON at the time. So I went through and deleted everything that I didn't like or never listened to. Got down to about 8,000.

Now I'm up to 15,000. :-/

I kind of miss the days when I bought a CD and listened to it dozens of times over, instead of downloaded a dozen CDs and listening to each once. I feel like the internet has made music really impersonal, if that makes sense.

It makes 100% sense, I'm with you. I miss the old days of really getting to know albums. Nowadays I still get to know some albums intimately, but slightly less, and many don't get the chance to make an impression because there are just too many.

I think everybody on MB is a music hoarder.

the other day, I found 10GB of post rock albums I forgot about.

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Very true, when I got the internet it allowed me to hear bands that I had never hear before but it also gives to much access to music, when I only bought CDs I used to listen to it non-stop and fall in love with it. Now I download an album, start listening to it on my ipod, then realise theres something else I just remembered I had to listen to and never hear the first album again.

If it's on my computer I will delete songs/albums if I don't like them but I would never throw out any of my CDs, even the embarassing ones.

Yes i totally agree with all of you i used to buy CD's all of the time and listen to one over and over and over again but ever since i started downloading music on the internet i listen to an album maybe once or twice or i download and album listen to one song and forget about it because i download another album or other songs that i like sometimes i dont even get to "know" the album because i never listen to it as much as i usually would if i had it on cd...i have downloaded music so much i have stopped buying cds and i threw out my old cd player which has been replaced by my ipod...which i really regret doing :(

I have the same problem as well everyone one lol. I find the best thing to do is listen to actual albums in my car. I still have to buy the albums I love, so thats where I listen to em.

I do it intentionally. I'm setting myself up so when music stops being so freely available I'm still set for years and years.

I also still manage to find albums I love on a regular basis and they get as much play as they would have back in the days of dubbing tapes.

You guys are right about the availability of music affecting how much we get to "know" albums, but I think a lot more of it has to do with my collection just being large in general. When it was smaller and first starting out, it was easy to give each album the attention it deserves. Now I have thousands of albums, so of course it just become unfeasible to really study all of them. There are still plenty of albums I have discovered recently that I find myself listening to over and over.

I have a lot of music. A lot of it I haven't listened to. A lot of I like. A lot of it I hate.

I'd consider myself a hoarder in that I don't delete even the albums I don't like. I'm not even sure why I do this. I might go delete the stuff I don't enjoy right now actually.

I find it hard sometimes to delete songs off of my computer because a lot of the times i will come across a song and think hmmm what if one day i wanna listen to this XD

Yeah exactly, or like, what if someone else is looking through my library? They might be impressed that I have this

or something

exactly! :P

ah, the pain of being a music fan.
hoarding music, being subjected to crappy music every day of your life, and dealing with less intelligent music fans....

good times, amirite?

I agree, being a music fan is hard work. So many people don't meet your expectations.

When I was on a cruise recently, I was talking to a scottish fellow and we got on the subject of music. I said I was a big fan of some recent English bands like Arctic Monkeys and Kasabian. He said he was a big fan of American rock, like Nickelback and Creed.

I wanted to die.

fixed that for you.

ouch.

This reminds me of some Pseudo-Indie kid who was hitting on me and wanted to impress me with his musical tastes. He asked me what kind of music I liked, and I said that I liked a lot of Avant-Rock and IDM, and I asked him about what he liked, and he said "Oh, I like Experimental heavy music like 30 Seconds To Mars and I really like that Deadmau5 song... uh.... yeah?"

He was not impressed by the look on my face.

someone said that internet takes the personal feeling out of music or something, i think in some cases this is true but if you truly love a song you'll listen to it on repeat i listen to a lot of songs on repeat, a lot of times when i get a new song i really like i listen to mainly that song from an entire day almost a week (i still listen to other songs)

What are you getting at?

yes this is so true sometimes when i can relate how i feel to a song i listen to it over and over again

I never delete any of my music, mainly because I haven't filled my hard drive yet, and I always tell myself "maybe I'll come back to this someday and love it".

I've never really bought into this whole 'Buying the CD is more special so I listen to it more' thing.
I have plenty of CDs that barely got a single play because of boredom or awfulness.

I treat downloaded music exactly the same.

it's not a competition, it's not a measurable endeavor. it's just sound. you either like it or you don't. it doesn't actually matter beyond that. if you can't see that and can't let go of the idea that listening to 'better' music matters then you (and all the others who think their preferences matter) really are just trendy hipsters and in fact quite a bit more annoying than people who would get excited at a new Nickelback album.




as for hoarding musical stuff. yeah i'm kinda bad but not specific to just one element. the worst at the moment is a toss up between my 10 guitars that don't get played anymore and the vinyl collection i took from my old man (about 200 albums mostly jazz and soul from the late 50s to the 70s). right now they all just collect dust. :(

Hey, my dad threw his collection away. He had loads of good stuff from Zeppelin, Steely Dan, and the Who (to name a few). I'm so pissed

Then why don't you buy CD's instead of downloading?

I rarely download unless I can find something for free, since I haven't had any money lately.
But usually I buy a CD. I've been buying CD's for about 4 years now.
And I have over 100. I'd have more if I had more money.

Eh. you're right.

As for the hoarding part, having 200+ albums on vinyl that you don't listen to must suck, because they might be valuable, and you just can't get rid of stuff like that.

And about the guitars, I am slightly jealous because my old guitar that I had when I was 11 (that I stopped playing when I was 12) got sold two years ago and I really want to play guitar, but my family probably can't afford another one :(.

Because it's an unnecessary expense in this day and age. I still buy albums I really like (lately: QOTSA - Lullabies to Paralyze) though

Yeah. True.
But I buy CD's no matter what.
I hate the idea of downloads and I love getting the albums you can pychsically hold the album, you have the artwork right there in front of you, not just a small little image on a screen, and you get a lyrics booklet, which usually includes art too.
And sometimes, you can get deluxe versions of albums. So you get extra stuff.
So no matter what the cost. I'm always gonna stick with CD's, until, if the sad, sad day ever comes, that there are no more CD's, and all music is digital.

Oh, and also, I like the sound of the music blasting from my Radio rather than sound of the music playing from my Ipod, there is a difference. Most people like the Ipod sound better though because the quality's the best, but I don't.

I'm picky, and every couple of months I go and delete everything I don't listen to. I like keeping my collection small.

I actually like having a large music selection because i find there is always something to listen to if i wanna listen to something else but usually i go onto the internet or look through old cds to find something to put into my music collection

I've always tried to do this; if I don't like an album I get rid of it. I don't see a point in keeping music that I don't enjoy listening to. However, my collection is getting big just due to the time I've been collecting, it starts to build up after a while. And there's no way I could regularly listen to all the albums I have, there's too many. But when there's one I download that I love, I treat it exactly the same as a c.d. I love. If I like it enough I'll end up listening to a new album every day for weeks, physical or digital.

Has anyone tried Listening and going threw all there songs to see what they like and dont like? I have been doing that for about a week now its such a long process specailly if you have A LOT of songs in your llibrary and it doesn't help that i keep downloading more songs on top of that! D: hehe

I don't think I could ever do one of those "listen to everything in your library" things because I always have an urge to download more.

Oh ya its truely the hardest thing for me to do I either lose interest in listening to them all and listen to a song over and over again or downloading more songs which just adds on its like it's almost impossible for me to do

the problem truly is accessibility...

if i find myself really digging a particular band or artist, i'm so quick just to download their whole discography because i'm so excited to hear more.

but if i don't end up liking their whole discography (which happens A LOT), i get stuck with tons of music i don't like/won't ever listen to, but it's STILL there...

Sometimes I force myself to stop downloading for a little while to get to know my current collection a bit more. I always end up finding several albums I haven't even listened to yet. This happened yesterday with Amon Tobin...I saw "Out From Out Where" being talked about around here and I love that album. When I hit "Amon Tobin" on my ipod, I found I had like 4 other albums that hadn't even been touched. It was a good day.

Everything I've grabbed online I have some kind of connection to, I can name albums or songs I enjoyed, or sometimes even random trivia. Stuff friends give me can go unnoticed for awhile, I know there's some artists on my hard drive I have not listened to yet.

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I approve.

I don't really buy cd's very often anymore because even though I love having the artwork and everything, I don't want to have a whole bunch of cd cases I have to lug around with me every time I move for the rest of my life. If I buy a cd I'll take out the booklet to consolidate but then the disc is floating around without a case (though those thin jewel cases are a good compromise) and I die a little inside when I throw out the case that has the artwork still glued into the back (do you guys know a good way to remove that? is it easy? i guess I've never tried)
So even though it's nice to have your huge music collection chillin there for everyone to see I've kind of accepted that looking through my itunes is the equivalent of that for me. I buy albums online a lot.

The two main hoarding problems for me are:
1) that there are some non-metal bands that I think are really good but I never listen to them because I'd always prefer to listen to metal. I have to keep them though because when I have non-long-haired company I want to play them something more friendly to their tastes.
2) When I learn about a new artist I download their discography but when I listen to them I just listen to their whole discography beginning to end and it's hard for me to differentiate between albums.

The best way for me to get familiar with albums again is to make a cd of it and listen to it in my car. The speakers are way better anyway :P