It started out as a complaint, and ended as a brag. Forgive me.
I’m still trying to recover my iTunes library by reimporting our CDs. (I do a stack every few days, and then sometimes I take looong breaks. But remember, I had something over 10k song files before The Crash, all save a few ripped from our CDs.)
Can you believe that I’m still futzing about with the artwork?! It’s amazing to me how many albums don’t have iTunes/CDDB artwork — and when they do, they’re often of reissues (she says with a sneer in her voice), totally wrong.
Now that I’m going to Amazon so frequently to find decent artwork (discogs and wikipedia are also surprisingly good sources), I’m learning that I have a pretty boss CD collection. I mean, when I look stuff up, used copies are selling for $5 to $40, not $0.01. Not that I could sell these and keep the files, ’cause that would be illegal. And, after all, what would I do when my drive goes belly-up again?
But it’s pretty nice to know that our taste (Plagioclase is the majority CD buyer, in case you were wondering) is cool (obscure?) enough to command some decent moolah.
