when i was in college, i knew this guy -- i used to kiss this guy -- who had a pretty massive cd collection. one of those guys who prided himself on the depth and breadth of his musical knowledge. he was also a pretty decently talented guitar player with massive procrastination issues, but what i remember, what i think about these days, is that at one point he made me a list of all the albums in the world that i "should" own. i didn't expand my music collection much during college, at least not in the sense of albums -- single tracks downloaded from napster, yes, full albums, no. i don't like being told what i "should" do. or like. or listen to. so i never acquired a lot of those albums.
(i bought pavement's crooked rain, crooked rain the summer after i graduated. what a fucking great album.)
i have this new computer with a massive hard drive, and i'm downloading and importing cds, stealing music from friends, fleshing out my collection in a way that my previous space never gave me the ability to do. sometimes i add music -- the new portishead, gram parsons, the truckers covering wings, a box set retrospective of the band -- and i think about what this guy from college would think of it. i'm pretty sure he wouldn't be able to get past the fall out boy, my chemical romance, panic! at the disco, and when it comes down to it, anybody who thinks i "should" own something and "should not" like something else probably doesn't have great taste anyway.
i was thinking about this because i was thinking about wooing boys with your itunes library.
5.02.2008
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