Blair Space: Do you listen or just collect music?

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Do you listen or just collect music?

I'm not particularly wanted you to go over to the forums and post the answer to the question. It's one of those, think about it questions. These days we all have huge music collections. And we like to pretend we listen to them, but do we, or are we just stockpiling the stuff?

I'm currently listening to Rage Against the Machine's The Battle for Los Angeles which I picked up because I liked two of the tracks on it, it was on sale, so I thought why not? But despite having it for a year or two, I'm only just really listening to it now. I've listened to it before, but I don't think I was really listening to it. As I am only liking it now.

This isn't the first time this has happened, indeed it happens quite frequently. I will be browsing through my collection, find something old that I have never really liked and yet when I put it on I actually find I'm really into it.

Sound familiar? If so you, like me, should probably re-consider how much we really listen to your collection. Sure the actual collection is important (that isn't sarcastic I actually really like collecting stuff as much as using it) but it can't hurt to give the music a chance either.

Not that I am saying I buy music I don't like just to have a bigger collection, I don't. I know people who do but that really is pointless. And those of you in my position can sit back, relax and feel good we're not that far gone. But next time your flicking past that Incubus, Fear Factory, Nine Inch Nails, whatever it happens to be album that you have listened to but never really listened to, give it a chance.