It’s not really anything to be proud of though, and I’ll tell you why. When you have this affliction, you do things like spend hours of time hunting down obscure artwork of 12″ singles from crappy “blue-eyed soul” bands so that the extended remix of some obscure 80s song you got on a compilation has the proper cover art when it pops up on your TV screen via Apple TV. You make sure the song has the right name (was that Loving or Lovin’?). You make sure it’s classified in the right year, which can involve quite a bit of reasearch for, say, old soul music that was only released on 7″ singles.

All in all, I’m not sure this is really the best way to spend your time.

iTunes (and tools like it, though I use iTunes) have been a godsend for music-loving OCD-types like me. If you properly tag your music, you can do something like listen to music of a particular genre from 1973, or you can easily make a playlist of every song you have with “fuck” in the title (57 songs long at the moment if you care). Yes, the possibilities are fucking endless.

Well, almost endless.

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