Music and Me

[hippielunatic]

Music has always had a special place in my heart. I fell in love with musicians, and was ready to take them to my grave with me. Meat Loaf, for example, still has my heart, even though Bat out of Hell III was less fantastic to my ears. Doesn't matter, the man's voice will always send me to a warm and fuzzy place, even if the song is about

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[whitmanschild]

I'm not certain where these fall for your sensibilities, but what's allowed me to branch out consists mainly of two things: Second-hand stores where I can get playable CDs for a buck and the joint use of an 8-gigabyte flash drive and a 300-gigabyte external hard drive.

The fact that I'm either paying for the music or am getting music from my friends makes it a little more like copying a mix tape in my mind. Granted it's a 2000-song mix tape, but it's just one of those things that I do to make myself feel better about my moral failings. I also like to use the excuse that I'm poor and reassure myself that most of a band's revenue these days comes from advertising and promotion deals and concert-related income. Meh.

At the very least, I'd "borrow" some albums from friends via flash drive to get a good sense of the musical direction you wanna sink your money into. Tell people a couple of your favorite bands and ask them if they have any music that they think you'd like. Or ask them for their guilty musical pleasure. Then you can go nuts with the Amazon order after you listen. Or you could be really nice and remain thrifty--just buy copies of all the individual songs that you liked out of your friends' collections from Amazon or iTunes or Rhapsody or wherever and delete the copies you've "borrowed."

Just some ideas. They've worked for me.