That’s not at ALL what I’m saying. What I’m saying is that having a stack of CDs taking up space doesnt make me enjoy music to a greater degree. If anything…the opposite is true…music becomes a headache to contend with.
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Staying with the dinner analogy…I’d put it as…“you know what would have made this night out even more amazing? Not being able to find parking and waiting 90 minutes for a table.”
Ok I see. Looking back I think his statement might have been a tad unclear and we both went in differing directions on this. I didnt take it as convenience vs enjoyment of music…but convenience vs specifically the nostalgia aspect of the physical medium.
That said, I DO kind of get the viewpoint. I think you’ve got to be pretty hardcore about it want to be surrounded by physical music and be nostalgic anout it though. I’m certainly not there…music has never been something I spend time thinking about.
That said…I do need some new bands to listen to.
Yeah, my intent isn’t to argue, and like i said, I’m not anti-digital. It’s just mind blowing to me when people say “music has never made me feel an emotion” when music is a part of almost every memorable moment of my life. I can’t imagine music never pumping you up, making you feel better when you’re sad, getting you through a hard part of your life, getting you through the next interval of a workout, making a scene in a movie more intense, etc…simply because it’s been doing all those things for me since I was a little kid.
Different strokes for different folks.
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I think ultimately, like virtually everything, it’s a spectrum.,.not a yes or no proposition.
Music is something I hear…I dont spend time thinking about it. But I will put on some fast songs for intervals, there are some songs I look forward to hearing.
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Bang on. That was what I was trying to say!
Although… I am nostalgic for the time of physical mediums. I still have all my old records, CDs, and a box full of cassettes somewhere as reminders of those experiences. They’re like photographs.
These days, I have far more great great music I can listen to, and I love that immensely.
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I think this is just what getting old feels like. In many ways things are objectively better, more convenient…but everything is less personal, more online, more anonymous. One thing I really miss actually is going to the video store. Streaming is better…but I still miss going to the video store.
I’m definitely getting old. Or society is just slowly decaying around us at a barely perceptible rate until we’re in all living in some post apocalyptic wasteland.
Probably both…
I beg to disagree. Your music preference does reflect your mentality from time to time.
It’s not at all hard to read someone’s mind by the habits and choices they have/make. Although I did freak someone out when they found out I really liked grunge. 
Never figured out what it was about me that got them thinking I was into country. I most certainly are NOT into country. URP
But music is a drug. I tried ‘aggressive rock’, and just NO!. (My heart rate, my anxiety. My me? Pass) Nirvana on planes, Counting Crows on long road trips. Green Day, Motörhead, Soundgarden/Audioslave, NIN, etc on workouts…