Recently, I have been listening to CDs that I bought back in high school and, I don’t know if this is unusual or not, but back then I normally listened to the songs that influenced me to buy the CD and gave the rest of the songs about 15 seconds to impress me.<\/p>\n
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With this attitude, it is amazing that I ever listened to any albums start to finish; but there are a few that impressed me enough to do this. In fact, I pretty much had this attitude until I got married and my wife pointed out to me that this was stupid.<\/p>\n
With many songs, the first 15 seconds are not enough to tell anything; especially if there is a 30 second introduction. Besides that, I was buying a whole album to listen to, on average, 3 songs; this is just not a cost-effective approach. While I have stopped this behaviour with CDs that I have purchased more recently, I still had not given many of my previous music a continuous listen.<\/p>\n
I have found that I was missing out on a lot of good music, and it feels like I just was handed a dozen new albums. Hopefully I am the only one who is this foolish but, if not, then maybe this article will inspire others to reexamine their collection.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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