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josilverdragonTL;DR, I still have to listen to the rest of this Angela Aki album, “Home”, before I can enjoy the new Trigun Stampede soundtrack lol.
I made a rule last year sometime, that when I add music to my personal library on my computer, I must listen to it at least once. The reason behind this is I have been prone to just hear a song once, love it, and then add everything else that artist or band or whatever has done and I end up with music I don’t even know.
This is in line with my decision to buy more physical media, such as CDs or DVDs/BluRays, because if everything is on streaming and something happens where the company decides to remove it all and write it off as a loss (looking at the WB/discovery/HBO merger last year) and you cannot find it anywhere.
So this does mean I pay more money than a monthly fee for streaming, but it also means if I don’t have an internet connection (blasphemy! I know!), the media I own, is, in fact, playable and mine. I live in an area where for a long time there was no cell service and if you have no connection, some of these streaming platforms won’t even load, even if you have music downloaded to play offline. I also grew up in a time where cell service was just calls and texts. And maybe some games but ultimately, I remember what it’s like and I am getting back to that mindset.
I love streaming still and I have the income now to have streaming and buy the media I love. I have no judgement towards anyone who can only afford one or the other. This is just what I’ve chosen to do and if you do the same, great. If not, well, it’s none of my business.
This last year I removed all the music from my music player on my laptop (I didn’t get rid of the music, just removed it from the library lol) and have been adding things as I feel like and making sure I at least listen to it once and if I don’t like it, removing the song, or whole thing, if I’m pretty sure I wouldn’t listen to it again.
Such as this Angela Aki album. I liked listening to it years ago (it’s from 2006; I feel older every day lol), but there is only one song on this album that I really love, which is Your Love Song. I don’t know how many times I listened to that one.
I am excited to hear the Trigun Stampede soundtrack and that has no bearing on my enjoyment of Angela Aki. She has some good songs and maybe I’ll feel more into it further down the road. But herein lies the issue as I mentioned before: I’d just save loads and loads of music from artists I think I’d like without giving each album or EP the attention they deserve to fully understand my feelings and enjoyment of such.
This became an issue because I couldn’t really pinpoint who my favorites were. I knew I liked certain bands or artists, but hadn’t listened to them in years. So this whole way of doing things gives me the opportunity to enjoy and listen and keep only what I enjoy.
And if you’ve read this far, then know that I’ve reached the Trigun Stampede soundtrack finally and I love it.
I made a rule last year sometime, that when I add music to my personal library on my computer, I must listen to it at least once. The reason behind this is I have been prone to just hear a song once, love it, and then add everything else that artist or band or whatever has done and I end up with music I don’t even know.
This is in line with my decision to buy more physical media, such as CDs or DVDs/BluRays, because if everything is on streaming and something happens where the company decides to remove it all and write it off as a loss (looking at the WB/discovery/HBO merger last year) and you cannot find it anywhere.
So this does mean I pay more money than a monthly fee for streaming, but it also means if I don’t have an internet connection (blasphemy! I know!), the media I own, is, in fact, playable and mine. I live in an area where for a long time there was no cell service and if you have no connection, some of these streaming platforms won’t even load, even if you have music downloaded to play offline. I also grew up in a time where cell service was just calls and texts. And maybe some games but ultimately, I remember what it’s like and I am getting back to that mindset.
I love streaming still and I have the income now to have streaming and buy the media I love. I have no judgement towards anyone who can only afford one or the other. This is just what I’ve chosen to do and if you do the same, great. If not, well, it’s none of my business.
This last year I removed all the music from my music player on my laptop (I didn’t get rid of the music, just removed it from the library lol) and have been adding things as I feel like and making sure I at least listen to it once and if I don’t like it, removing the song, or whole thing, if I’m pretty sure I wouldn’t listen to it again.
Such as this Angela Aki album. I liked listening to it years ago (it’s from 2006; I feel older every day lol), but there is only one song on this album that I really love, which is Your Love Song. I don’t know how many times I listened to that one.
I am excited to hear the Trigun Stampede soundtrack and that has no bearing on my enjoyment of Angela Aki. She has some good songs and maybe I’ll feel more into it further down the road. But herein lies the issue as I mentioned before: I’d just save loads and loads of music from artists I think I’d like without giving each album or EP the attention they deserve to fully understand my feelings and enjoyment of such.
This became an issue because I couldn’t really pinpoint who my favorites were. I knew I liked certain bands or artists, but hadn’t listened to them in years. So this whole way of doing things gives me the opportunity to enjoy and listen and keep only what I enjoy.
And if you’ve read this far, then know that I’ve reached the Trigun Stampede soundtrack finally and I love it.