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Music ADD / downloading sucks

mandrewmandrew 2,720 Posts
edited December 2005 in Strut Central
if i'm downloading and/or sitting in front of my computer, i can rarely sit through an entire album let alone a whole song. i have a compulsive need to organize playlists and make sure everything's in order on my itunes. it causes me to only listen to about one minute of every track before i come across another song that i want to hear. i know this all began freshman year of college when some dude in my dorm came by and installed napster. napster seriously messed up my music listening habits... (yes, it has its benefits but that's not what i'm talking about here). not only do i get rushes of add when i'm listening on my computer now, but the music i've downloaded i don't appreciate as much. (this is the reason i have resisted soulseek). it's like if i want a song, i get it right away, and the instant gratification lessens the quality of the song. it's like fast food music. whereas finding that song or record in a bin in a dusty basement is like cooking a delicious homecooked meal. ordering it off the internet is like eating out at a restaurant.

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  • BsidesBsides 4,244 Posts
    I go through periods of gathering and then periods of listening and enjoying. Thankfully unlike alot of people on here, i dont have any ocd driven compulsive need to organize or catalog.


    I do however have a serious addiction to music I havent heard before. Its always been like that for me. when im making a cd for the car or an itunes playlist I usually sit back, put one in the air and figure out what i actually like.

    DOwnloading has taken away a small part of that magic that i used to experience when getting a new album for the first time, but theres no turning back now and I wouldnt have it any other way.



    Basicly, i hear what you are saying. But you should still get soulseek!
  • mandrewmandrew 2,720 Posts

    a cd for the car
    yep, this is where i do my most serious music listening. godbless my own homemade mix cd's to get me through the ghettos of beverly hills



    put one in the air
    ? is this new slang i'm not up on yet?
  • buttonbutton 1,475 Posts
    Yeah I was just talking about this sad fact to a friend of mine. I almost miss the pre-internet days where I could only allow myself to buy one album a week and really soak it in. Even if I wasn't wild about it I could usually find something to appriciate.
  • BsidesBsides 4,244 Posts

    a cd for the car
    yep, this is where i do my most serious music listening. godbless my own homemade mix cd's to get me through the ghettos of beverly hills




    put one in the air
    ? is this new slang i'm not up on yet?


    Not exactly new. Means smoke one. You are in beverly hills? I live in hollywood.
  • mandrewmandrew 2,720 Posts

    a cd for the car
    yep, this is where i do my most serious music listening. godbless my own homemade mix cd's to get me through the ghettos of beverly hills




    put one in the air
    ? is this new slang i'm not up on yet?


    Not exactly new. Means smoke one. You are in beverly hills? I live in hollywood.

    live in h-town too. work in bev hills. yo i'm boys with pete and csection.
    what's good with the emerson reunion at cat n fiddle tonight?
  • puchitopuchito 374 Posts
    Soulseek, has kind of desensitized me to music also. I also felt this way when I worked in a record store. After a while it just was no big deal, you sort of get over it.

    The only thing I have never gotten over though, is pornography, and smoking rocks (sometimes at the same fucking time!!!!)
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