Finding new ways to procrastinate...

[ivyfic]

I'm ripping a bunch of my old CDs onto my computer. I don't know how many CDs I have, but I'd estimate over 500. When I got a 20 gig mp3 player a few years ago, I ripped my favorites onto my computer, the ones I listen to a lot, then stopped when I'd filled up the 20 gigs, so there are books of CDs I didn't bother with.

All this to say, wow I own some really shitty music. I used to shop at used CD stores in college a lot, and I'd buy pretty much anything if I'd heard of it and it was under $4. So I have Amy Grant's "Heart in Motion," Cyndi Lauper's Best of, I've got Elton John's second greatest hits album (I like Elton, but his best eighties hits is really not the album to own). I've got freaking Donny Osmond albums. Aqua. Best of Don McLean. I know I came this close to buying Chumbawumba. I have two--no, three--Mortal Kombat soundtracks. I have the soundtrack to "The Pagemaster" and "American Tale 2: Fievel Goes West," neither of which I've seen.

I rediscovered my Bobby Brown "Don't Be Cruel" album, which was my brother's favorite when it came out. At the time, I was still in the golden rule stage of moral development and thought this song had a positive message everyone should learn from. Now I realize it's just him being pissed at his girlfriend cause she won't put out.

At the time I bought these, I realized they were crap on the first listen, and segregated them from the rest of my CD collection. Now that there's iPods and a whole new model for listening to music, I glean out the one or two tracks from each that are worth listening to.

I can only imagine if iTunes had existed when I was so rabidly acquiring music. It would have been like watching my checking account drain straight out through my ethernet cable.

Comments

[neotoma.livejournal.com]

Hey, don't knock Aqua. It's the perfect music to play halfway through the graveyard shift; there's no way you can fall asleep when *that* is coming out of the speakers!