Bo Eder
Platinum Member
So my early 2004 iPod Nano died on me. It only had 8GB so I didn't store that much on it. When I upgraded it recently, I decided to go all the way and get a cool new iPod Touch with 128GB of storage! Wow. If I imported tunes into it as low-to-mid level MP3's, I could probably get my entire CD library into it.
This evening as I started on this project, I realized I just fell for Apple marketing again. My CD collection isn't just a collection. I actually studied much of it as I learned how to play certain things over my lifetime (a lot of the CD's were replacements of favorite albums I bought when I was a child). I had studied them so much, a lot of my CD collection lives in my head to this day.
Some music I regret listening to now as I've grown away from it. I had several of those "what was I thinking when I bought this?" moments as I went through the CD collection trying to pick what I wanted to load into the iPod. A lot of my CD collection I realized I could literally give away. The information was internalized and I don't need to hear it anymore.
When I finally picked out stuff that I still enjoy listening to, it was very nostalgic stuff - like the first Rush album I ever bought, or the first time I heard the Police. Jimi Hendrix, Zeppelin.....old swing music my parents and I liked. Hawaiian music that links me to the family. Dad turned me on to Bach and Mozart at an early age, so that's important. The stuff I like are all originals; like King Crimson, Zappa, Living Colour, the Four Freshmen... But I have literally hundreds of CDs that are just taking up space in a closet that I'll never listen to again. And a new iPod I could store all of it on. What a dope I am - I could've stored the important stuff on my phone instead of thinking I needed all this storage space!
This evening as I started on this project, I realized I just fell for Apple marketing again. My CD collection isn't just a collection. I actually studied much of it as I learned how to play certain things over my lifetime (a lot of the CD's were replacements of favorite albums I bought when I was a child). I had studied them so much, a lot of my CD collection lives in my head to this day.
Some music I regret listening to now as I've grown away from it. I had several of those "what was I thinking when I bought this?" moments as I went through the CD collection trying to pick what I wanted to load into the iPod. A lot of my CD collection I realized I could literally give away. The information was internalized and I don't need to hear it anymore.
When I finally picked out stuff that I still enjoy listening to, it was very nostalgic stuff - like the first Rush album I ever bought, or the first time I heard the Police. Jimi Hendrix, Zeppelin.....old swing music my parents and I liked. Hawaiian music that links me to the family. Dad turned me on to Bach and Mozart at an early age, so that's important. The stuff I like are all originals; like King Crimson, Zappa, Living Colour, the Four Freshmen... But I have literally hundreds of CDs that are just taking up space in a closet that I'll never listen to again. And a new iPod I could store all of it on. What a dope I am - I could've stored the important stuff on my phone instead of thinking I needed all this storage space!