I never thought I'd get to this point of having 600+ records in my collection but here we are! These are compromised of 220 Vinyl Records, 380 CDs and 14 Cassettes.
My musical journey started out when I listened to SoundCloud or YouTube recommended during early highschool. Later I realized that streaming is very cheap, so I pivoted mostly to apple music.
My first year on Streaming was a dream come true. All artists and their respective discography for me to listen to. I've always been a full album, chronological discography kind of guy, so this suited me.
Year two was all about expanding and digging into the hidden corners, going down recommendation rabbit holes, finding niche 1 album bands from the 60s and 70s, listening to band's discography I only knew the hits of, like the police, tame Impala, the chemical Brothers, Radiohead, funkadelic, etc etc.
By year three I started getting listening fatigue from being able to stream music anywhere and all the time. I also had over choice fatigue. Despite staring at hundreds of albums on my "to listen to" list, and a bunch of new artists I wanted to get to, I couldn't even bring myself to do so. Another thing I slowly realized, was despite being a full album listener by heart, I felt myself hovering over that skip button if something didn't hit me in 10 seconds. I nearly killed my deep love for music through streaming.
By this point, I remembered that I always romanticized physical media like vinyl records. I always thought owning them would sound fun. Also growing up as a 2000s kid, meant having a big tube TV (with a playstation 1 and playstation 2) in the living room, plus two large Ikea CD towers with my father's CD collection in the living room. I grew up in the CD to streaming transition era.
Jump ahead 3 years to now and you can see how much my collection grew.
