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Confessions of a music hoarder (part 58,779)

How much music is too much music? I guess the obvious answer is -  er,   it's the wrong question.  That it's a false premise. Because you can't have too much music, right? Yeah, absolutely, that's right. But, anyway, having just watched some American dude on his YouTube channel banging on about why we should all buy CDs (which I do) and not get too hooked on fickle streaming services, I found myself drifting down the YouTube comment thread where dozens of people were saying they agreed with him and that they had large collections of CDs which they'd been buying since the 1980s. I mean, pretty large . One person said they had 4,000 CDs. A few comments later someone said they had 9,000. Blimey, it's all very competitive in the world of obsessive CD purchasing. Of course, moments later I had to check my own CD shelves and do a rough guestimate - about a thousand, I reckon. Which already feels like a lot to me. Then I checked how many saved music files I have on m...

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