what is this craziness?

I don't think that I have mentioned my recently acquired obsession with downloading music off the internet. When I got my iPod I spent a month or so putting all of our music onto my beloved Mac. We had a fairly respectable music collection of around 750 albums [I really am showing my age, I mean CDs]. My iPod held this quite comfortably, with space to spare. If you remember, the iPod is a beautiful 40GB model. Around the time that I got my iPod I also discovered Bit Torrents, and I found lots of sites that offer, for free, lots of different kinds of music. So, and this is a little oriental nod to TEFL Smiler, I started to download music, and download music, and download music. I have now acquired a fantasy music collection of around 1200 albums. It has got so bad that I have had to buy an external hard drive to store the music on, and I have just been saying to Mrs McMuffin that I really need to buy another external drive so that I can back up the music because it would kill me to lose it all. I think I wrote about this before, I was shocked to find out that I really was 'white rock boy' when put my first 750 albums onto my machine, but now I can hold my head up high with the most catholic of music aficionados...My friend Miss Victoria Sponge introduced my to the wonderful Django Reinhardt during one evening that we had dinner at her house, and, as if by magic, I now have everything that he ever recorded! If the truth be told, this is the only problem with stealing music, and yes, I have not lost all sense of perspective, I know that this is theft [but I just can't help myself], everyone wants to give you complete 'discographies'. At one point I thought 'wouldn't be nice to have a little bit of Johnny Cash'. A few hours later, I was the proud owner of 216 tracks of Johnny Cash music. Now, don't get me wrong, that is not a bad thing, but, does anyone really need that much music by Johnny Cash? Having said that, you will be doing yourself a real disfavour if you do not search out his American recordings. His interpretations of other people's songs are fantastic. His voice has acquired the same depth of soul that Bob Dylan has acquired over the years, and can be heard to it's best on 'Oh Mercy'. By the way, before I forget [as an aside, for some strange reason Slink has forgotten how to push open doors. Over the last few days he has taken to sitting in the hall crying, or rather wailing, until someone opens the door so that he can join us! Ah, the joys of not owning a cat!] Django Reinhardt is truly wonderful and I beseech all of you to seek him out, if you haven't already. It is too difficult to explain what is good about his music, but it speaks to my soul, or at least that is what I would say if I believed I had a soul. I am going to end this rambling post with these words...I LOVE MUSIC.