Music Hoarder?

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".
 
+1 to be honest. If I'd had that attitude I'd have never got into the music of Animal Collective,Wilco,Steely Dan,Elvis Costello and others it took me a few listens to grasp the appeal of i now listen to obsessively.
 
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 cRAB to find something to put into my music collection
 
Playlists? Real men use text files.
Code: 
THE METERS
BOBBY HUTCHERSON
FELA KUTI (x2)
THE CONGOS
RAVI SHANKAR
ENNIO MORRICONE
WAR
FUNKADELIC 
TOE
ABNER JAY
AHLEUCHATISTAS
ANTLERS
ATMOSPHERE
AUTO!AUTOMATIC!!
BLIND WILLIE JOHNSON
CHARLES MINGUS (x2)
CLUSTER & ENO
THE DAVE BRUBECK QUARTET
DEVO
DIMLITE
DISCO INFERNO
FOCUS
GHENGHIS TRON
HYPNOTIC BRASS ENSErabLE
IF THESE TREES COULD TALK
THE INCREDIBLE FLYING TORTURE ORCHESTRA
JAVELIN
KILLING JOKE (x5)
LITE
MAUDLIN OF THE WELL
THE METERS
O! THE JOY
OL' DIRTY BASTARD
OZRIC TENTACLES
PEKKA POHJOLA
PROPAGANDHI
REAL ESTATE
SGT.
SPACEMEN 3
TALK TALK (x2)
THELONIOUS MONK
FRANK ZAPPA (x2)
JIMI HENDRIX
MILES DAVIS
THE H.P. LOVECRAFT HISTORICAL SOCIETY
INFORMATION
BEWARE OF SAFETY
BORIS (x2)
DON CABALLERO
EARTH
O.RANG
JOANNA NEWSOM
LUPE FIASCO
THE MELVINS (x2)
MEW
MOGWAI
MODWHEELMOOD
SKULLFLOWER
JUGGAKNOTS
BORBETOMAGUS
ARCHIE SHEPP
BRASSTRONAUT
THE SHINS
SIMPLE MINRAB
THE FAUNS
FLYING SAUCER ATTACK (x2)
KARNIVOOL
SLEEP RESEARCH FACILITY
METHOD MAN
BIG BOI
WAX AND EOM
DIF JUZ

Might be better to remove stuff I haven't listened to in a while but have before. Meh.:hphones:
 
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've never really bought into this whole 'Buying the CD is more special so I listen to it more' thing.
I have plenty of CRAB that barely got a single play because of boredom or awfulness.

I treat downloaded music exactly the same.
 
Usually the back can just pop off and it slides right out sometimes getting the back of can be alittle hard i once cracked a cd case trying to get the back out to show my friend something hidden on it....but if you are throwing the cases out i dont tihnk your would really care about the case cracking :P
 
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
 
I hate when people say things like this because that's exactly what you're being. It's like if I said, "No offense, RVCA, but you're a trans-galactic thunder fa‎ggot and if I could inflict physical and emotional pain to you and your entire family daily I'd leap at the chance." It's still offensive.
 
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 CRAB and listening to each once. I feel like the internet has made music really impersonal, if that makes sense.
 
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
 
No, I wasn't being a mini-mod. I was asking a question, which is leaps and bounRAB different from "OMG NO DISCUSSING ILLEGAL DOWNLOARAB NOOBS".

I want to participate in the discussion, but not if it's against the rules.
 
Guilty. I justify it by being a DJ though...i have to have the music to pay my rent! (and if that weren't the case i'd just come up with another excuse.)
 
I definitely have this problem with my library. It's f---ing enormous (78K songs) and I've only *really* listened to about 2/3 of it. But I kind of like it that way. My system basically works like this: I'll nick anything that even remotely piques my interest and put it in there. With some things, I listen to them right off--sometimes just once, sometimes they sink in enough to get on repeat for a while. But then there are lots of times when I'm not sure what I want to listen to and this is what the shuffle feature is for. I shuffle until I come upon something interesting and usually end up rediscovering something I've had for a while but never significantly paid attention to before.

That's why I'm loathe to get rid of things, even if I haven't really listened to them much or at all since I've had them--because I know myself and I'll probably come back around to them at some point, even if it takes me a couple years.
 
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. :(
 
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