Well, and that's the thing. I am a subscription sort of person. It used to be the legal Napster, and now it's Rhapsody, but I don't buy anything anymore, really. I buy rights. So then I'm only limited by my bandwidth, and I download bunches of stuff by album.

I think it's partially the old school musician thing, where the album and the song order and the arc was all a thought out thing, you know? Like, how long the pauses are between songs was thought about. Not that I get that effect still, playing mp3s, but the point is, I apparently still think of the entire album as a unit, filler songs and all. If I'm really annoyed by it, I can fast forward through.

Plus there are albums like The Hazards of Love and Meteora where all the songs run into each other.

At home I often have iTunes playing all day when I'm sitting at my computer. That's been quite a bit more in the past two weeks that I've been off work and programming the heckout of my homework. Or, you know, playing stupid Facebook games.lk,j

I had this car conversation with my sister a couple times. She has an old Dodge Caravan that's run well forever, and she's wondering if she should replace it. I told her, give it to me! Don't sell a car just because of high mileage. My old Cavalier wagon had 220,000 miles when I sold it, and it had only ever needed one major repair. I only sold it because my girlfriend didn't like it (never do that, either).

I can fast forward through.

My musical listening life is designed to avoid the FF button.

the point is, I apparently still think of the entire album as a unit, filler songs and all

Most Prince, some Maxwell, some Alice Cooper, and DMB. Otherwise it's all picky choosy. One of my favourite CDs mixes songs from one to the next, and I absolutely despise it. How dare they dictate to me??? Who do they think I am?

I was organizing my giant CD wallet last night. Pretty album covers! The cases are kind of a pain, though.

I still have an overstuffed bookshelf of CD cases in my bedroom. I cannot part with them. I feel *really* leery about buying video on iTunes. It doesn't seem real enough.

OMG, I've been on the phone three hours, and I have another half hour to go, minimum.

Pretty album covers!

One of the reasons I miss LPs being the most common format. (The other is being able to force your younger brother to get up, go over to the stereo, and flip the album over. Good times.)

Album art isn't the same in 4 x 4 inches (or whatever the exact measurements are).

t starts timer to see how long before someone posts the exact measurements of a CD insert

I buy CDs when possible so I have a backup, because I'm certain my hard drive will crash and I'll lose all my music if it's just stored there.

I DID SOMETHING ON MY TO-DO LIST!!!!!!!

ok, so it was the thing that was NOT applying for a job, BUT STILL! It is over 2 months late and I just did the hard part!!!

I should also mentioned that I walked mac to school this morning, so that was 30 minutes of exercise. TAKE THAT bad chemicals in my head, I will FORCE endorphins on you.

I buy CDs when possible so I have a backup, because I'm certain my hard drive will crash and I'll lose all my music if it's just stored there.

Right now my main library is on my Linux box, in my iPod, and on my Apple TV. This had better be sufficient.

I still have an overstuffed bookshelf of CD cases in my bedroom. I cannot part with them.

JZ got rid of the CD cases and now we can't sell those CDs to Amoeba. But the whole used market in CDs is starting to collapse.

I'm only getting a fraction of what I used to get for selling my CDs back. A bag of CDs that used to get me $80 will only get me about $24 now.

Even though Amoeba is still packed with customers, it seems inevitable that it will close in the next five or six years.

On that subject of the loss of brick and mortar stores, I really wanted to punch the hipster couple in the basement stacks of City Lights who were writing down titles to go order online later.