In Reply to: There was a moment when I looked at all my books in my shelves posted by blindness on November 21, 2025 at 13:05:56
An old friend came over for dinner. We've always bonded over talking about music. He asked me what I'm listening to. I told him, I listen to a bunch of different things - my problem is that I like making playlists more than I like listening to my playlists.
He is a psychologist, his response was: it's a form of hording. I never would have made that analogy, but it's perfect. The local record store periodically has a $1 sale, where they blow out the stuff no one will buy. I go to that. There's a lot of stuff where I'm thinking, "I'll throw a buck at that." So, I've got a couple hundred albums, many of which I haven't played. I was just starting to go through a process of playing a record, and, if I figured I'll never play it again, it goes into the trash. But, my turntable crapped out on me.