In my first job there was a cupboard full of free music albums. Back in the day, in the years before the decline and shut down - Play.com got a lot of freebies and perks.
I spent many a lunch break at this cupboard sifting through thousands of albums and acquiring new tunes. Ended up with a large box with 200+ odd albums, along with rarities and oddities I've picked up over the years.
Unfortunately, over the course of 20+ years I've had a hard drive fail and lost my entire music collection twice. Both mortifying experiences for someone who's spectrum-like hyperfocus and passion has been collecting music.
The first time was self-inflicted; during a moment of high anxiety whilst tripping on shrooms. Deleting my entire music collection, emptying the Recycle Bin, then it clicked in my brain why the music I'd been listening to had stopped...
Now I vehemently back up my data. Truth be told, losing my music triggered an intense focus to recoup my losses, and go even further to increase my music collection above and beyond what it had been in the past.
I've put a lot of time, money and effort into collecting music. Before I add these tunes to my computer, I still have a backlog of 20,457 tunes in my music library that I've bought and need to listen to, rate, categorise and such like.
I know all these albums need adding onto my PC again. It'll help bump up my collection of WAV files, as I try to gradually replace all my favourite 320kb/s MP3 files with WAV versions.
Music is great though. I've been lucky enough to chat with a lot of underground artists when buying their music on Bandcamp. Small record labels and niche genres where buying their discography is met with wholesome back and forth emails and thank you's.
I've even scored an unreleased back catalogue by a very talented breakcore artist, along with other rare releases from artists as a personal thank you for my support. I have also contacted some artists to request albums which I used to own but no longer existed to buy online. Several took the time to find copies and upload them so I could once again own them.
Ed
I spent many a lunch break at this cupboard sifting through thousands of albums and acquiring new tunes. Ended up with a large box with 200+ odd albums, along with rarities and oddities I've picked up over the years.
Unfortunately, over the course of 20+ years I've had a hard drive fail and lost my entire music collection twice. Both mortifying experiences for someone who's spectrum-like hyperfocus and passion has been collecting music.
The first time was self-inflicted; during a moment of high anxiety whilst tripping on shrooms. Deleting my entire music collection, emptying the Recycle Bin, then it clicked in my brain why the music I'd been listening to had stopped...
Now I vehemently back up my data. Truth be told, losing my music triggered an intense focus to recoup my losses, and go even further to increase my music collection above and beyond what it had been in the past.
I've put a lot of time, money and effort into collecting music. Before I add these tunes to my computer, I still have a backlog of 20,457 tunes in my music library that I've bought and need to listen to, rate, categorise and such like.
I know all these albums need adding onto my PC again. It'll help bump up my collection of WAV files, as I try to gradually replace all my favourite 320kb/s MP3 files with WAV versions.
Music is great though. I've been lucky enough to chat with a lot of underground artists when buying their music on Bandcamp. Small record labels and niche genres where buying their discography is met with wholesome back and forth emails and thank you's.
I've even scored an unreleased back catalogue by a very talented breakcore artist, along with other rare releases from artists as a personal thank you for my support. I have also contacted some artists to request albums which I used to own but no longer existed to buy online. Several took the time to find copies and upload them so I could once again own them.
Ed
