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Being a former DJ has its perks and I like it like that! I can't get to all of it, but it gives me reason to clean my space up to be able to get to some of the "treasures" locked in the grooves, or pits, as it were.
Setting aside radio and streaming sources, when it comes to your collection—LPs, CDs, computer, tapes—do you have more music than you'll ever be able to listen to?
I'll always want more. Need? That's a different thing altogether. I think sometimes I have all I need, until I discover a new artist whose music mesmerizes me. Something fresh and vital! Artists like A Fine Frenzy, whom I just discovered via a blog here on the ol' Stereophile website (THANKS!).
The eye is always hungrier than the, ear—well, anyway, during the late '80s and early '90s, I bought stacks of LPs at quite high prices before they would sell out. In the last few years, it's the good deals on classical CD's combined with web shopping that have led me to buy more than I can consume.
Hey, you got something against '45s and '78s? Anyway, at 45 years old I probably still could listen to all of it before I die, once, if I stopped doing lots of other things (including buying more records!) and just cleaned and listened. It's not a matter of "able to," as you say in the question, but a matter of "likely to"—and I know that I'm likely to kick the bucket owning thousands of as-yet-unlistened-to rekkids...