Friday, February 29, 2008

Really? I used to like this?

I have a lot of cds that I never listen to. That's partially because I've converted several of them to digital format. It's also because my music tastes have changed over the years. I have never sold any music that I've purchased. That means I still have a cassette tape of Weird Al Yankovik's "Even Worse" album that I bought when I was 12. I've always thought of my music as similar to a picture of me. It's a snapshot of who I was at some point in my life.

So I've decided to revisit my music collection. My work commute runs about 25 minutes each way, so that gives me 50 minutes, Monday through Friday, to listen to an album, which is just about perfect. On the weeks I'll most likely have to listen at home. Now, given that I'm not all that principled in doing this, I may not do it every day, and during the summer when I'm not working I may get even more lax. I will miss some days. I'd like to include my cassette's in this, but given that I don't even own a working cassette player this will be somewhat difficult. Maybe I can stream them off Napster. I'm initially planning on doing this with complete albums, so a lot of my recent music acquisitions won't be included. No mix cds or single song downloads, just complete albums for now.