Ctrl-A, Delete.
2 minutes ago, I deleted all of my painfully-collected, 44.3GB library of music. Because I didn’t listen to most of it as it is, and because from here on in I intend to purchase everything. Let’s look at it this way – if I’m willing to spend money on a CD, it’s going to be worth listening to.
Unfortunately, this means I now have to commence the painful procedure of re-ripping everything that I actually do own. And the fourteen albums that are sat under my desk that I’ve bought within the past month or so. Still, I’m feeling quite good about this decision. It makes the whole process of organising my music collection a hell of a lot easier for a start!
The way I see it, I’m very rarely going to lack an internet connection. So if there’s something I “just want to listen to” I don’t have to download it permanently. Spotify was created for a reason after all, and last.fm is hardly negligible either (when I get around to actually making an account that I’ll remember the details for. Haha)
Honestly, piracy is over-rated.
~ Cap’n Godders.
Comments
Emad (Aug 11, 2009)
44.3GB?! Please tell me they were all high bit-rate and that you didn’t actually have years worth of music!
=P
Patrick (Aug 11, 2009)
2 minutes ago, I deleted all of my painfully-collected, 44.3GB library of music.
I deleted all of my 44.3GB library of music.
I deleted all of my music.
I deleted music.
:O
James Inman (Aug 11, 2009)
Much agreed.
Good call.
Just, when you start buying more than 5 or 6 CDs a week, stop and think. Else you have the same problem as before.
Godders (Aug 12, 2009)
@Emad: There was a lot of music. Seven hundred albums at least.
@Patrick: Yes, I did. It was, I feel, a good choice.
@James: We have already discussed how I don’t have a constant stream of cash, so I’m unlikely to keep buying them as soon as I can get my scrawny butt into HMV anyway.