1898 songs.
As far as the music purchasing discussion, my train of thought with music goes like this
>do they sell it in physical form?
>If yes, do I care if I have it in physical form? >Yes, buy it >No, look into digital purchase/not available in physical form
>Available for digital purchase?
>No?
>Pirate that shit
I kind of agree to this. There are just some things that aren't available at a
reasonable price any more, like old singles and EPs from the 80s and 90s that were hard to find on CD or weren't on CD at all. Somehow, someone, somewhere, has made them available in digital form for downloading, and that's cool because it's either that or pay some eBay seller a ridiculous amount of money for what amounts to 20 minutes of music. To me, that money doesn't go to the record company so it doesn't affect the RIAA if I don't BUY some insanely overpriced rarity.
I will always buy the physical form music if it's new, relatively new, or relatively cheap for how old/rare it is. Otherwise, other routes will be taken, but this only amounts to about 2-3% of my collection.
Speaking of which, I'm a little over 10,000 songs, which come from around 700 albums (all purchased and physically owned)... and still many more to go (just received 4 in the mail today!)...
-Marc.