Anyone else have this problem with music?

[ReservoirAngel]

My friends have recently commented on my apparently insane music collection.

Not so much the music itself, but I'll try to explain: throughout my entire time listening to music, I have NEVER actually listened to or even HAD one full album.

My iTunes consists almost entirely of random artists with only 1 or 2 songs under their names. I never like the vast majority of songs a certain band/artist produces, it's always just a song here, a song there.

So does anyone else have this habit, or is it just me being a total freak?

 

[delet]

No, I try to get everything I can from an artist I like.

 

[Sacman]

No I buy the physical disk of every band I like because I like the novelty of having it...<.<

 

[Red Right Hand]

Nope. I'm an album nut. I do love a good album. It's great finding one that you can just listen to the whole way through without changing any of the songs.

 

[Jamboxdotcom]

No, I try to get everything I can from an artist I like.

This.

No I buy the physical disk of every band I like because I like the novelty of having it...<.<

and this.

Nope. I'm an album nut. I do love a good album. It's great finding one that you can just listen to the whole way through without changing any of the songs.

and this.


basically, you're just crazy. no, just kidding i just never got into the whole iTunes thing. but then again, i'm sorta a Luddite.

 

[Mr.France]

I used to have this thing (not sure it is a problem) with music before I was introduced to Metal, a musical style I deeply enjoy listening to. Perhaps it is something similar with you.

 

[TheComedown]

No I buy the physical disk of every band I like because I like the novelty of having it...<.<

Same, steadily growing collection of cds in my room.

It would drive me nuts if I only had one or 2 songs from an artist, you miss out on an insane amount of good material if you're only picking out the singles and whatnot.

 

[Trivun]

I tend to buy physical disks myself, because aside from Steam I don't trust digital downloads of any sort of media (not because of computer safety, merely because of the fact that if I accidentally delete something or the company goes under then it's my money that gets wasted, and that's just unfair). So I usually have full albums worth of music from each artist, and artists who I really like I tend to get all of their albums where possible.

That being said, I do also have some songs where it's just one or two from a decent artist, and that's all. For example, I only have about three songs by Foo Fighters on my laptop, and none of their albums, but I still like the band. I just don't have any of their albums or anything. So no, you're not a freak or anything like that. If you want to listen to particular songs and nothing else, then that's your prerogative, no-one else's.

 

[Best of the 3]

You ain't crazy and there are a few people I know that do this and I also like certain songs from artists more than their others but I prefer to get the whole album myself.

 

[Radeonx]

Certain artists I have quite a bit of music from, but I will only have one or two from certain artists.
I have a mix of both, basically.

 

[Infinatex]

Nah single tracks is the shit! A lot of artists have one or 2 tracks per album that are good and the rest just filler. And you don't want filler clogging up you library.

 

[BioHazardMan]

Most of my library is like that, I have around 10 artists with many songs, then 50+ with 1-3 songs.

 

[NeedAUserName]

I do this. I have hundreds (probably thousands now) of different artists on my iTunes account, but most only have 5-10 songs to their name, I just cherry pick the best stuff.

 

[badgersprite]

My friends have recently commented on my apparently insane music collection.

Not so much the music itself, but I'll try to explain: throughout my entire time listening to music, I have NEVER actually listened to or even HAD one full album.

My iTunes consists almost entirely of random artists with only 1 or 2 songs under their names. I never like the vast majority of songs a certain band/artist produces, it's always just a song here, a song there.

So does anyone else have this habit, or is it just me being a total freak?

Absolutely. With the exception of Soundtracks the only complete albums I've owned are CDs from before iTunes ruled my life and even then I usually have half the songs unchecked, if not more. I have the most random taste in music. You don't even know...

 

[Casual Shinji]

I'm an album guy all the way.

I've never downloaded a song in my life. Though in this day and age, it's probably me who's the weirdo in that regard.

 

[LightningBanks]

My friends have recently commented on my apparently insane music collection.

Not so much the music itself, but I'll try to explain: throughout my entire time listening to music, I have NEVER actually listened to or even HAD one full album.

My iTunes consists almost entirely of random artists with only 1 or 2 songs under their names. I never like the vast majority of songs a certain band/artist produces, it's always just a song here, a song there.

So does anyone else have this habit, or is it just me being a total freak?

Its more I hear a song and I instantly like it, therfore I listen to it. I try to listen to other stuff by them, but it doesent work. Songs in my library include wwe soundtracks and game intros, as well as songs that just click. I dont know why I cant listen to any of the other stuff, but I think its where I dont know the song at all.

 

[ShenCS]

How is it a problem? You don't like some of the music, ergo you don't spend money on something that is 90% useless. You're not being unusual in any way.

 

[CarpathianMuffin]

If I can, I buy the CD. If I can't, I buy one of the albums online and download the mp3s from such.

I never had much of a problem with that. There's always been bands that I like enough to listen to their entire album. Even back in the days when I used to like whatever the Billboard Top 100 shoved down my throat.

 

[Mike Laserbeam]

Haha you're the polar opposite of me!
I did used to do this though, then a very good friend lent me some albums and I got really into buying them myself. CDs that is, although recently I've found it to be much quicker to just buy the albums on Amazon mp3...

I know loads of people like you so don't worry about it
Although, no offence intended but, I do find it slightly irritating when I try to go through a friend's iPod or something and find an artist I like, only to find that they don't have that one album track I love!