Originally Posted by
Jerry Oz
I've still got 500 record albums from back then sitting in boxes or on shelves. I started to digitize the ones that I can't find anywhere in the last four years or so. That takes me back to many good times of taking a chance on obscure artists at campus record shops, finding something that I like, putting it on tape and cruising around town, listening to my "discoveries". My friends often wondered what it was that I was having them listen to and many of those songs became part of our soundtrack from those days.
Then, there came cassettes. I've got a few hundred of them and about the same number of commercial CDs. I'm one of those rotten people who has a couple of thousand bootleg CDs, as well. I know it sounds bad, but there is a lot of stuff that I can't find in the shops or on-line, so I get it where I can. I participate in the thread about word association every day. 90% of my responses come from typing key words into Media Player and seeing which of the thousands of songs I have produces a good response. Your post reminded me that it's time to back up my hard drive, so thanks for that.
Since most of my music is ol' skool [[check that: ALL of my music is ol' skool) I feel better having it as well. If I can't find something, I'll get it from I-Tunes [[picked up "I Shoulda Loved Ya" from Narada and "Living it Up" by Bell & James last year, only because they popped into my head), but I can't see myself subscribing to a streaming service.
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