Music CDs and me

Recently I purchased several CDs of my favourite music artist, Jay Chou.

It struck me how much I got attached them straight away. The music on those CDs were tracks I had listened to many many times before, yet I felt as if it was the first time I've heard them before.

Maybe I am a bit materialistic, but hey, it doesn't matter right? Because we live in a world saturated with consumerism, so everyone should have the right to be a little materialist. Anyway, deviating a bit here. So it occurred to me how bland and meaningless music downloads are. I have an iTunes library with a lot of tracks, probably around 7GB worth and quite enough (there are only THAT many songs one can listen to in a day) but very few of them I have purchased. Lets be honest, no one really wants to buy music, but it seems now I do feel like buying every album.

When playing the CDs, I realised I didn't skip any tracks right away, instead I listened contently. Firstly it's because I wanted to get my money's worth (haha xD) but also I felt the need. to. Contrast that to on iTunes, whenever I download the music I quickly scan through the track listings, skip the uninteresting ones in the introduction and generally listen to a few of them. Surely that's unfair. I know how to compose music and it is so difficult to make a music track, and yet so many people disregard that hard work just because they think it's not worth listening to.

So next time, if you really wanna enjoy the music, buy the CD



If you have money that is. Which of course, nobody does.