I'm going to sell almost everything i've collected in almost 20 years. I love metal and that's part of the problem - I could listen to in endlessly and endlessly play along to it every night. But it's been isolating me from people I want to be around. So I've been fasting from it along with other things for a lot of months now. And if I have a woman round to the flat, she doesn't want metal CDs in her face. And since there's no reason to have them with MP3s, Youtube etc I'll sell them/give them away to people who are congruent listening to them.
Also, I discovered that one of the reasons I've often listened to this music is to get approval from a parent who hated "modern" music and I thought I could prove (to myself or the parent) that it's as complex, intricate etc as anything they'd listened to.
So thankyou metal, thankyou God, thankyou metalGods (Halford, Dickinson etc) - I'm giving it back to the universe for other souls who can use it.
Amen.
This is strange. Why would you want to give up something you love, just for the convenience of others? I actually do see what you are trying to get at, but why the hell would you have to sell everything? Have you heard of small doses and prioritizing and time management?
The bolded sentence just baffles me. You sound like my best friend in high school. he liked metal for a while, but eventually thought it wasn't cool and conformed and just listened to what everyone else was listening to. At the end of our friendship he kept saying things like "Why do you listen to the metal stuff, girls aren't gonna like you. How are you going to have a conversation with a girl when she asks what music you like and you say stupid bands like Judas Priest, Halford, Black Sabbath, Iron Maiden etc." I wasn't his friend anymore.
I've actually gotten my girlfriend into metal over the years, there would be no way I would give up my prog/metal for a woman. Some days, we like to take a break and I spend the day blasting some metal on my own, it's good for us.
Rethink about what you are saying and what makes YOU happy in life because Andy, this is a strange thread.