A year ago, I remember having ~30GB of music on my PC. Apparently, during a a large search for new music to put on my phone, I found that I had not only 40GB of music, but a bunch of unorganized stuff. As a kid, I was such and idiot. I think I might’ve screwed up my entire collection of music because I started ripping CDs and downloading music illegally when I was in 6th grade (1998-99) when you could just go to a random website and pick up some new MP3s to add to your collection. I can even name you the first three I downloaded because I remember calling up mom on the cell phone (remember, we had dial-up) and telling her the good news that I was gonna save her tons of money because she didn’t have to buy music anymore.
What an idiot I was! I thought it was legal. Like, I thought people were idiots who stupidly paid $16-17 for an album that came with 12 songs when I could put 20-22 songs on a CD and the CD cost me a dollar to burn, and all I had to do was setup a bunch of MP3s to download and then go play some football outside for a couple hours with some periodic checking to make sure the connection didn’t break. Either way, I had methods of pausing downloads so I could have like 20 of them lined up and ready to go, and it’d even shutdown the PC (and the internet usage) when it was done. Pretty classy.
In my more recent buying spree since last Summer, I have been buying up music like crazy. I hear a good song or group, I buy the album no matter the cost because I am still constantly looking for new music. In going back and looking for songs for my phone, I did a lot of organization and saw all of the old music fads I had. I remember I was, at one point, obsessed with John Williams and even some weird stuff. I found albums Dad had around the house from back when I was even younger and saw the crazy stuff I listened to. Can you believe I was an 8 year old kid listening to some pretty heavy rock and jumpin’ all over the place dancing to it just to piss my parents off because I felt just that cool?
I even listened to a lot of classical music. Mom told me it was good for me so I, the arrogant child I was, wanted to be so much smarter to impress the ladies. That never worked out in the end. Actually, because of the area I live in, that was counterintuitive. The majoirty of girls here were pretty stupid, and I guess it worked out in the end because I kept out of trouble that way. Technically, being a social outcast has its ups. And all of this on a post about my music collection.
The number of songs last year was not even 4000, so somehow I ended up buying enough music to crank out another 10GB and rack the number up to a whopping 9554 songs. Whatever I did, it must’ve been killer. Heck, I forgot I didn’t have all of this music to choose from until just recently. Since it’s on my PC, I always feel like it’s always been here, but at some point in time, I backed up 3 DVDs worth of music which I assumed as all of it. What’s happened since then? Geez. This is a crapload of songs, and I don’t know what I’d do w/o them. If I felt lucky, I would add in the 8GB of songs I have on Stepmania, but I’m not that daring. I think it would ruin the game for me too so whatever I can do to keep myself playing DDR is always a plus. I mean, my life runs around the thing so making the choice between playing a game that keeps me healthy and sociable over having a larger music library becomes much much easier that way.
Kevin out in the old fashioned style yo!
=D
. Go me.