Not to be a pain in the can, but I really want to know
A- How can you guys afford to buy so many CDs?
I'm always broke. I shop at Goodwill, drive a crappy car, live in a little apartment and spend all my money on records and beer. My wife thinks I'm insane and I've never grown up.
B- Where do you find time to listen to and digest so many new CDs?
I don't watch TV, so figuring 8 hours a day at work and 6 or so to sleep each day leaves tons of time. I have music playing pretty much all the rest of the time. I can easily listen to 2-3 things a day and usually more.
C- Where do you find the time to listen to the 40 CDs you bought LAST year . . . and the year before, et al?
See above.
D- where do you store them? The logistics of dealing with such a fast growing collection is staggering to me.
Storage is always a problem. Here is one of my latest solutions... <A href="http://forums.audioreview.com/showthread.php?t=7390">New Record Shelf</a>
I'm in the process of building another one, along with new shelving for CDs and books too. (The wife and I both have a disease when it comes to books)
I just can't imagine being able to stay on top of so much new music and still find time to take a shower, let alone actually work and spend tiome with my wife.
I'm lucky that wife is pretty into music too, not as much as me because she needs time to watch Cops and CSI, but she still likes a lot of stuff I get into too, although she's a little more traditionally hard rock oriented.
I think I bought about 8-10 2004 CDs this year . . . a lot for me.