I own a shit tonne of CD’s. I haven’t been home in 6 weeks and walking into my room I was astounded by how many I actually own. 48 CD cases, (some including 2 discs) line the shelf above my bed, a collection of the soundtrack of my life over the past 3 or 4 years, from High School Musical to The Labyrinth soundtrack from MCR to Boston. I’ve aways loved having a physical copy of an album, I love the cover artwork cover and the lyrics booklet, I love the designs on the CD themselves and I like the closure of it all: someone one day had an idea for one song, which turned into 17 which turned into an album which was shipped to Australia which I bought and brought home. I like to get as close as I can to their creative process and I need to see the result, this is so lost when you buy directly from iTunes or other….not so, you know … ‘legal’…means. I mean sure you get the cover art, but you don’t see the hours they spent on art direction on the lyrics book, and how that ties in with the concept of the album, or the hundreds of photographs that were taken to get the perfect one to put behind the cd. I don’t want any of their creative efforts to go to waste I guess. I want them to know it’s appreciated, all the little details, all the elements of the story. I’d hate to think I was missing out on part of the story they were trying to tell, by clicking pre-order instead of waiting outside my local record store.

But seriously it’s a lot of CDs, I think at least 45% of JB HI-FI’s revenue last year must’ve been directly from my bank account. I should be getting a discount by now.