Yesterday’s announcement on Sony BGM joining the whole Nokia Comes with Music thing got me thinking. Sure, I understand I don’t need to trolley-dash as much music as I can squirrel away in a year, as is the offer when you buy a Comes with Music device. Even though it’s free and I get to keep it forever. Fact is, that’s simply not how I’d want to behave or digest music. It all feels a bit too Willy Wonka’s Chocolate Factory, having everything you ‘should’ want. But I know consuming that much music in a year would turn me into a soulless bloated man stuck in a plastic tube of misery.
I guess for me it’s that whole thing of when you buy a load of music you end up listening to none of it, but carefully choose and buy one thing and it becomes part of the soundtrack of your life… unless it’s anything by M People.
A music collection is a badge of honour, and regardless of who sees or hears it you feel a personal connection with it. And there’s the rub. A personal connection can only occur when you feel you have created something from nothing and found stuff that you feel is unique and resonates with moments in your past. I’ve got a history (30 years of it now), a music collection I don’t want to leave behind, rebuild, or most significantly, poison with a load of meaningless stuff I’ve hoarded in a mad rush of gluttony.
Is this just a daft rant, or does anyone feel the same way?
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