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Honestly, that calculation deeply annoyed me. The author says he is 39, and that he has amassed so much music that he couldn't listen to all of it in 40 years,

• saint_fiasco 9y ago
  Maybe he bought a lot of music back when you had to buy whole albums at a time even if you only liked a couple of the songs. Kind of like I do with videogames and bundles.
• rb808 9y ago
  > But I will confess that when peer-to-peer file-sharing came into my life about 15 years ago, I was not immune to its siren song. Yeah downloading every mp3 in the world was easy, which I think is the point of the article.
• fusiongyro 9y ago
  This guy is a music industry professional, so it's less surprising to me than if he were just some dude who makes websites.
• Brockenstein 9y ago
  In the 21st century its pretty easy to acquire media of any type faster than you can consume it. I've got a backlog of books on my kindle. Over 14 years I've acquired games on Steam a few at a time to an extent that I could take a few years off work to play them. The problem is you can't listen to all the music that came out today, and then listen to all the music that comes out tomorrow and listen to your favorites from yesteryear too. Some people don't temper their buying habits to reflect that, at least not optimumly.