Can't do anything else while these CDs rip...

So I've been putting off ripping my music collection for too long now. I wasn't planning on doing it today, but after putting an album on my itunes I just walked over and grabbed my two boxes full of cds and started ripping away.

That and I'm tired of seeing these two boxes sitting in the corner of my bedroom. Recently I had to evacuate the largest closet in my apartment and give it to my girlfriend because her clothes and shoes started to overflow the small closet she took over a few years ago after she moved in. I was using the largest closet to store my boxed up shit and whatnot. Well during this switch I pulled out my cds and set them aside in the bedroom to rip later.

Hmm..this Fight Club Soundtrack a friend ripped for me taking too long to put on itunes. Hold on a sec. Gonna switch CDs and do this one last; or skip it completely. I don't think I would really listen to this one anymore.

Ok. Anyways.

I've already put about half my albums on itunes. I just never got around to the other half until now. Having them boxed away out of sight was comforting enough for me to forget about them. Having them out bothers me mentally. I think I have some form of OCD (Obsessive Compulsive Disorder). I obsess over lots of things in my life and one of them happens to be organization (number 1 on the list of my obsessions). In fact, my father is the same way: Organization! Everything has to be organized and efficient! Nothing random!

So when MP3 format came along I found a way to organize my music as well as way to physically store (or get rid of if I'm so inclined) one of my possessions. It definately put my mind as ease. I couldn't stand owning so many CDs throughout my life. I wanted to do something with them that would ease my obsessive mind and usually storing them away (efficiently!) usually did the trick.

As well as organization, owning lots of things bothers me. I don't like owning lots of physical objects that I have to always touch, move around, organize, store and worry about.

When I saw a wee lad I learned how comforting it was to just throw away something I didn't use or need any longer. Some people compulsively own stuff and collect stuff. I can't do that. I kinda do for some small things, but overall I try to decrease the amount of things I surround myself with. So being able to take these boxes of CDs and take them to my families attic for permanent storage and out of my apartment is going to feel so good. I could throw them all away without blinking twice, but something might happen one day to all this ripped music and I may need to rerip them again. Thats literally the only thing holding me back.

I no longer buy CD music if you couldn't guess.