by Frayo » Sun Jul 23, 2006 12:39 am
I dont really download full albums...unless its something entirely overpriced.
I archive EVERYTHING.
I like to take all the names and artists ever mentioned on this site in the past 3 years I've been here...and plug them into my databases...and generate epic want lists.
I harvest a few grand of cash twice a year and fulfill my want lists.
I also download about 2-3gigs from the italo hubs, for those are rapidly changing. If there is a song one day, it probobly wont be there another...and italo hubs by reputation and existance...are very, very hard to join.
Anyway- these songs help me generate want lists.
I dont share all my collection on the hub.
I am on a campus network. My actual collection has 35,000 songs in it...and when I connect to DC++, SoulSeek, HotLine, etc...I get SWAMPED...and campus kicks me for hogging bandwidth.
Unfortunately....my want lists tend to average about 10,000 items each.
In essence, I am essentially an archivist. I purge a lot of areas. I leave others alone.
I am after all that is new wave, italo, disco, synthpop, dance, house, lounge, funk, and general 80s music.
This quest has costed me a fortune. Sometimes its a full time job. I have no free time usually. I am administrator in Student Employment and Im a full time student. I do well in school, but I have no free time. I force free time....merely to listen, collect, and download.
Its a world-building exccersize...I collect other media from the era. Its quite strange. I put it all together....its kind of an addiction. Synth music does something. Its like LSD honestly....only better.
I was always obsessed with synth music....since I was 5 and heard the solo ending of Lucky Man by ELP. The weird feelings/visions that come from listening to it first happened when I was undergoing treatment for schizophrenia, and I started taking hallucinagens while medicated...it warped my perception of reality permanantly....but its all the best...because I see colors/places when I listen to my music.
I have to have it all...so that I can trade for more. If I spend an extra $30 on an albumm thats rare, I might be able to trade it for a rare album that I cant find....that I really really want.
And also....I like to have a HUGE amount of music on hand...because I like to get drunk...and share everying in a very funny/crazy weird-ass series of posts Im known for as the 'Drunken Mp3 hoarde'. The incoherence of the post will confuse you, but the music...occaisionally has a pain-in-the-ass to find song or two that I am permitted to share (Sometimes artists, traders, and wavers request I not share some music).
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