Look at all my MP3s!! Oh, you can't...
iPods and stuff are great, aren't they? I've been having lots of the fun with the iPod Nano I won. It's tiny and I can fit something like 1,000 songs on it. It weighs a few grams and I can take it anywhere. I can choose what songs to put on it, I can take some off, put some others on, make up playlists and all kinds of jiggery-pokery.
However, there's just something about digital music collections that doesn't compare with having something physical.
I have in my home a very large collection of albums, 7" singles and 12" singles on vinyl. Ok, I can't take 1,000 songs with me while I'm taking a bus or sitting in a pub reading a book but I have a collection. I have something I can pick up and look at and store in nice ways or even untidy ways. People have come to my house and said 'My goodness, look how many records you have. You're even cooler than I first thought, Twenty!' because there's no escaping them.
If I had a 60gb iPod which I assume would have a 15,000 song capacity and it was full to the brim people wouldn't look at it and say 'Wow! What a lot of music you have'. They'd probably just say nothing and think 'Oh, another cunt with an iPod'.
I know people who read books and pass them on like old newspapers but I also know people who collect them like precious gems. They know which book goes where on which bookshelf and would no more part with one of them than they would with their right arm.
It all boils down to the fact that having lots of stuff is cool and having lots of digital stuff is also cool but nowhere near as cool as having something you can stack, sort or cram into various spaces.
Vinyl is also a cool thing to collect as it sounds better than CD and I don't care what anyone says. God be with the days when I used to trawl the second hand record shops in Dublin looking for rarities. Freebird was the first stop, generally, and there was the George's St arcade but there was one on Wicklow Street/Exchequer Street that used to be deadly. Can't remember the name of it though - it might have been Record Collector - but that's where I bought my replacement original 7" of David Bowie's Space Oddity after Dirty Dave had drunkenly used the one I actually bought in 1969 as a coaster.
I thrashed him to within an inch of his life, let me tell you.
However, there's just something about digital music collections that doesn't compare with having something physical.
I have in my home a very large collection of albums, 7" singles and 12" singles on vinyl. Ok, I can't take 1,000 songs with me while I'm taking a bus or sitting in a pub reading a book but I have a collection. I have something I can pick up and look at and store in nice ways or even untidy ways. People have come to my house and said 'My goodness, look how many records you have. You're even cooler than I first thought, Twenty!' because there's no escaping them.
If I had a 60gb iPod which I assume would have a 15,000 song capacity and it was full to the brim people wouldn't look at it and say 'Wow! What a lot of music you have'. They'd probably just say nothing and think 'Oh, another cunt with an iPod'.
I know people who read books and pass them on like old newspapers but I also know people who collect them like precious gems. They know which book goes where on which bookshelf and would no more part with one of them than they would with their right arm.
It all boils down to the fact that having lots of stuff is cool and having lots of digital stuff is also cool but nowhere near as cool as having something you can stack, sort or cram into various spaces.
Vinyl is also a cool thing to collect as it sounds better than CD and I don't care what anyone says. God be with the days when I used to trawl the second hand record shops in Dublin looking for rarities. Freebird was the first stop, generally, and there was the George's St arcade but there was one on Wicklow Street/Exchequer Street that used to be deadly. Can't remember the name of it though - it might have been Record Collector - but that's where I bought my replacement original 7" of David Bowie's Space Oddity after Dirty Dave had drunkenly used the one I actually bought in 1969 as a coaster.
I thrashed him to within an inch of his life, let me tell you.
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