Hey dude :-)
Heh, but imagine all the absolute rubbish there must be there?
Considering the questionable taste of the majority of filesharers, I'm inclined to agree. :-D
It's an interesting quest, I'd like to see the collection but as to whether it's humanly possible to enjoy that much music properly, I'm not sure. I started buying records regularly in late 1999, and up to that point I'd had little besides a second-hand copy of 'Nevermind'. I would lay on my bed listening to that CD and staring at the pictures of Kurt Cobain, thinking about how incredible it was that he could... um, "vocalise" like that. I still do the same with a vinyl copy of 'Rumours'. Although mine jumps, but I just won a "mint" (we'll see, but it was only £2 anyway) copy on eBay. Uhhh, and I bought the 2CD re-issue yesterday when I was in Manchester. God, I'm dull! I think I ought to go back to the point at which I became a hopeless music nerd and save myself.
I forgot what my point was... Oh yeah. I have about five and a half thousand MP3s on this PC (mostly ripped from my own record collection, only ~100 are dodgy downloads). There are maybe 10 discs that I haven't bothered to rip, because I literally never listen to them. These days I buy at least two CDs/LPs a week on average. Maybe it would be more if I had the money, but I think that's really the limit for me if I want to really appreciate and obsess over what I'm hearing... Maybe that's just not for some people, but I think hell will freeze over before music becomes background noise for me. :-)
Just noticed something, "Doug" says he won't distribute his collection because it's illegal, but mentions the BitTorrent network (on which your download speeds rely on you sharing as an anti-leech measure) repeatedly during the article. Hmm... :-?
