  Things I& nbsp; really like& nbsp; at the moment.  1.
nbsp;  The fact I have a * LARGE*  hard drive. nbsp;  Between my two hard drives,
 I have 200 Gigabites of memory.  2. nbsp;  I- tunes. nbsp;
 The 'Party Shuffle' feature is * so*  sweet!  3. nbsp;  My dear friend Bob,
 and not only because he is loaning me CD's from his 1000+  CD collection!  Last year,  I bought quite a few 'Best of. ' collections,  ranging fron the 50's through the 90's.
nbsp;  Add that to my actual CD collection and I had quite a bit of music on my hands. nbsp;  I decided I wanted to convert everything over to . mp3's,  save a hard copy of everything to DVD's,
 and get rid of the actual CD's. nbsp;  I will have approximately 5500 sonds on 10 DVD's ( as a back- up to my hard drive)  Bob,
 sweetheart that he is,  has graciously loaned me CD's from his fabulous collection to add to my burdgeoning collection. nbsp;  How fabulous is Bob's CD collection? nbsp;  Well,
 Amazon. com has their recommended,  " Essentials"  list that I was perusing online yesterday and today. nbsp;
 Bob has most of their recommended Rock/ Blues essentials. nbsp;  I feel like a kid in a candy store. going through& nbsp;
Bob's CD collection. nbsp;  I think I've borrowed around 100 CD's from him over the past week. all of them * classics* nbsp;
 Bob,  quite literally,  rocks.  I'm just * so*  tickled that I have this huge music library at my fingertips.
 Funny thing is. nbsp;  I have all this music. but there is so much more out there that I don't have. that I want. nbsp;
 It would take me eleven days to listen to the music I have right now,  and we are talking& nbsp; about listening 24 hours a day. nbsp;  Stil,
 there are songs,  artists that I don't have. that I simply must get.  At this point,  I want to say that everything I have& nbsp;
has been& nbsp; acquired legally . nbsp;  I do not have any file sharing programs on my computer. nbsp;
 They are bundled with too much spyware and crap,  and I * do*  believe that& nbsp; file sharing&
nbsp; is out and out theft. nbsp;  I do believe there is a difference between borrowing CD's from Bob. and using file sharing programs. nbsp;
 Mainly. the artist got royalties from the CD's Bob bought. nbsp;  The artist does not get jack- squat from illegally downloaded music.  Believe me.
if I could afford to spend four or five thousand dollars on CD's,  I would go out and buy the CD's rather than borrow from Bob ( though as I noted above,  I had qute the collection myself before I decided to put everything on my hard drive and divest myself of all the CD's. nbsp;  If I had that much money,
nbsp; I would not be living in the small apartment I am in right now. which means I would have room to store everything.  * SMILE*  I just love listening to music.
nbsp;  Listening to music brings me a kind of happiness that I find very difficult to explain. nbsp;  I love most music ( with the exception of Gangsta Rap and truly purile acid rock that is derogatory and violent) nbsp;
 World music,  Classical,  Jazz,  Rock,  Pop. and other genres of music.
you name it( genre. not artist- specific)  I probably have heard it and like it. or can find something to like about it.
 I guess,  as addictions go. being 'addicted' to music. and wanting to collect all the 'essential' artists,  classic albums,  and the music I like isn't such a bad thing.
 & nbsp;  Michelle I'm not an addict.  I'm a habitual user.  & nbsp;
 The Last Days Of Disco 
