Listened to on the way to work today: the Violent Femmes
Listened to on the way to work yesterday: Herb Alpert
My name is Jenny, and I am a music junkie. Not as much anymore because I got tired of having to buy a whole CD for one song, but I listen to a lot of Internet radio these days. I have more than 1,000 CDs (I stopped counting several years ago), and I should be the ideal customer for the record companies. My music tastes are all over the map, and I like hearing new songs and genres. It's just that now, I do this via the Internet instead of in a store. The overwhelming majority of CDs in my collection were purchased legally, with a small percentage of them being freebies from when I worked at a radio station and a record store oh so many years ago.
And I'm a second-generation music junkie. I learned it from my Dad, including playing my music loud, and I'm already passing that love along to my children. :-) My brother periodically sells CDs he hasn't listened to in a while, but I've kept all of mine since my first one in 1987 because my music tastes have mood swings. One day I have to listen to classical, the next jazz, the next 80s music, the next hip hop, and so on and so on and so on. It's also a catalog of my life. I can remember where I was and what I was feeling when I first became obsessed by this particular artist or that particular song.
I still haven't gotten around to writing about why I don't like radio (not Radio) anymore, but today I thought I should go back and listen to all of my CDs, one-by-one, in alphabetical order. (Because I'm a librarian so of course they're organized.) I wonder when I would finish?
The record companies have alienated me and pretty much lost my business. When satellite radio becomes affordable and usable, I'll give it a shot. Until then, I'll be living in the past.
8:35:08 AM 
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