Some of it is compulsion, some of it is risk aversion. I have a lot of music that means quite a lot to me; I would be crushed if I could never hear it again. Ke

Some of it is compulsion, some of it is risk aversion. I have a lot of music that means quite a lot to me; I would be crushed if I could never hear it again. Keeping mp3's on my hard drive (and backed up!) means I'm almost always able to listen to the things that bring me joy. (And I've definitely lost some of those songs, and have not been able to find them ever again. At least, in that situation much like you, I have no-one to blame but myself.)