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12-06-2010, 07:59 PM | #21 (permalink) |
Quiet Man in the Corner
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Definitely purge it. What I do is get an album, check it out, if I like a couple songs I'll save it for maybe a month. If I don't enjoy it all that much, I get rid of it. I think discographies are a sort of waste, but that's probably because I've never liked one artist enough to have every one of their albums. I don't see that happening either.
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12-06-2010, 09:40 PM | #23 (permalink) |
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Haha, when people come in here they go
"You really have a lot of records, and I love your tapedeck, it's like the one in Pulp Fiction". It's not the same, but that doesn't matter .
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12-06-2010, 09:42 PM | #25 (permalink) |
Quiet Man in the Corner
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For me it's more about variety than size. That's probably why I have so many artists and such a small collection. I can count the amount of artists I have more than one album from on one hand. Though I was born with six fingers. Don't laugh. I have hand image issues.
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12-06-2010, 09:50 PM | #26 (permalink) | |
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See? Works every time
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Prettie varied, eh?
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12-07-2010, 12:02 AM | #27 (permalink) |
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Wow cool, thanks for the replies.
I think one of my biggest problems right now is my compulsive need to collect discographies. It explains why my collection has grown so much in the last year. I used to keep my collection down to 30gb so I could fit the whole thing on my iPod, but when I realized that was silly, I sort of lost control of the whole thing. Someone mentioned ambient. I went on a big ambient kick a few months ago, and have quite a lot of it. But I'm not often in the mood to listen to it, so I don't know it very well. I suppose the best thing to do will be to leave it alone and just spend more time listening. Maybe I need a new rule says I have to listen to and rate five albums for every one I download! Of course, I'm moving in 6 weeks and will be losing my amazing-ultra-fast-astonishingly-cheap internet connection, so another part of me is saying I should grab a few hundred more gigs before I go, just to be on the safe side
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12-07-2010, 12:15 AM | #28 (permalink) | |
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Instead of feeling obligated to arbitrarily listen to albums in succession, try putting your library on shuffle and listen until something grabs you. Listen to that album it's from and bingo. Sometimes things don't grab you until you've experienced more musicially, that's always been the case with me - sometimes I just don't hear the right song to get me into a band, or maybe just haven't grown to appreciate their sound just yet. But if you "discover" music you've already downloaded by putting it all on shuffle, I'd say in time you'll feel much closer to what you have. just my 2 cents. |
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12-07-2010, 06:32 AM | #29 (permalink) |
Fish in the percolator!
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Maybe it's just the hoarder in me saying this, but I wouldn't purge any music unless you need the space. Keeping only what you think you'd want to listen to (or could feasibly listen to given time constraints) would be fine, if not for the fact that your preferences change over time, and you often can't judge some releases until you've heard them several times IMO. And maybe I'm just weird but I sometimes like to take an album I think I'll dislike and listen to and evaluate it.
Having said that, I do understand your desire to downsize your collection to eliminate the niggling feeling that half of it is foreign to you.
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12-07-2010, 07:59 AM | #30 (permalink) |
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I never thought of doing that before but t sounds like a really good idea. I feel like I constantly have the problem of wanting to listen to some album I downloaded recently but not being able to remember the name of the artist.
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