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How much?
Just finished re-organising my MP3 collection (tidying it up and consolidating it and so on) in part of a migration to iTunes. This is due, in part, to my purchase of an iPod Nano the other day.
Why did I buy the Nano? Well, for one thing I’ve had an unutterably shit few weeks (doubtless I shall reveal all at some other juncture when the dust has settled) so I needed a new toy. And for another I have decided to get myself a MacBook Pro, so I needed something compatible with it.
So… what has this consolidation and sorting out taught me? Well, for one thing it’s taught me that I have about fifteen gigabytes of MP3s in total.
Fifteen. Count ‘em. Fifteen.
It’s also just underlined that I am one of the campest men alive. Just a random sampling reveals 64 ABBA tracks, 138 Pet Shop Boys tracks and 49 PWL Remixes (that’s just the official PWL remixes, not the songs originated by Stock Aitken Waterman themselves).
Even the 105 episodes of I’m Sorry I’ll Read That Again - it’s far funnier than bloody Python - and the appearance of a few guitars in the odd unexpected place can’t normalise this curve.
Perhaps I should just hang it all and start wearing glitter on my cheeks.
Posted on February 20, 2008 | Filed Under My So-Called Life, Pop Music
Comments
Response left by Tom on February 21st, 2008
Oh, I have no doubt I could double the PSB stuff at a stroke if I ripped the albums in their entirety - most of my MP3 collection excludes anything I have on CD (although for convenience’s sake this is slowly changing).
Erasure’s currently at 73, again with very little in the way of album tracks… and that’s a band I don’t rate particularly highly!
Response left by Rob on February 21st, 2008
‘Campest men alive’, you have met my husband, haven’t you?
Response left by Pandemonia on February 21st, 2008
You’re right. Compared to him I’m a rank amateur.
Or Chuck Norris.
Response left by Rob on February 21st, 2008
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I have 323 PSB tracks. And I have at least one PSB CD I’ve not ripped yet. Only 37 ABBA, though, and no PWL remixes nor even much PWL stuff generally. But lots of Erasure.