sidewinder

Good point, gramps!

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neverthesame

Ok, that's a bit aggressive - I didn't want to start anything. Look, I never suggested I was more of a fan, or a better fan than anyone else, or other people are in any way wrong. In fact I specified the opposite.

I'm just looking at this mathematically. If you have 1000 albums, and listen to 3 different albums every day of your life, you still only get to hear each of them once a year! Multiple thousands of albums, and it's far less frequently. And that's not including new music you're buying. That just wouldn't work for me.

I never said there was anything wrong with it. Are we not allowed to talk about stuff unless we've directly experienced it now? Should I just reply with a number and leave it at that? Great conversation that would be.

(by the way, if my ~700 albums is "very few", then we're completely on another scale again)

Janszoon

Who listens to music like that though? I know for me, and I think this is true for most people, it's more the case that I listen to certain albums a lot for a while then start listening to them less and less as time goes by and I find new albums to get into. I certainly go back and revisit old favorites from time to time but it's not like I feel the need to consistently listen to every single album I own on a regular basis.

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clutnuckle

Actually, it wasn't aggressive at all. It was a pretentious comment. Therefore, I called it pretentious. I apologize if you registered it as aggressive.

If you attest to having less knowledge/experience/fanship, why are you saying "listening to more than 25 albums a year will not let you appreciate them" like it's factual?

Nobody really listens to music like this. Forming a mathematical point of view on this just doesn't work, because, as Jans said, nobody really listens to music in a completely systematic and lifeless way. There's a lot of thought, mood and emotion that the person puts into making their musical choices for that day.

Sure, they could listen to 'on average' 3.33333333333 new albums per day... But does that REALLY mean much over a year-long period? Some weeks, I revisit old favorites, give things second/third/fourth/nth chances that I didn't much care for last time, and other weeks I listen to predominantly new things, etc. In fact, if I'm in a frame of mind where I enjoy new music, I probably GET a lot out of it, and therefore those listens mean a lot more towards this 'really listening to the music' thing you're hung up on.

When you have an OPINION, talk about it as though it were an opinion; you did at first I notice, with the 'reckon', but your following tangent was very much objective for the sake of being objective.

Also,

When you said:

You've admitted to having fewer albums right here; what's wrong with me using it as a piece of evidence if you yourself said it to be true? And you are correct, ~700 really isn't a small number, and you have quite the collection, but you DID say "fewer albums", which comes across as saying that you have a very small collection.

Stone Birds

i have over 100 CD's and i've downloaded about 80 albums on the internet
so 101 -200

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neverthesame

Ok, this is why I can't be bothered - spouting about the correct way to express an "OPINION" (on the internet, of all places), and you called me "arrogant and pretentious"?

clutnuckle

This is the post I was talking about, hence why I quoted it.

This is not somebody declaring they have an opinion. This is somebody declaring that they are correct, with a bunch of arbitrarily chosen methods for proving whatever point they were trying to make.

neverthesame

In my opinion, I have around 700 albums.

TheCunningStunt

You're entitled to your opinion, but you're wrong.
I think 1,000+ is about right when you consider the amount of genres out there.
I have select favourite records I listen to all of the time, and I know them inside out.
But I like to mix things up and experience new music, variety is the spice of life.
I don't think any amount of music is TOO much, I do however believe there's such a thing as too little.

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downwardspiral

one.

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