Box Set Go

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

This is a question for those of you who buy (or yes ACQUIRE) large amounts of music at once - maybe in the form of a box set, or some kind of big "torrent", or something. I'm especially thinking of things like 4CD sets of country songs, or 8CD Disky box sets - anything with a huge number of not-known-to-you tracks.

My question is - how do you deal with them? Do you have a method for working out what the good stuff is? Do you just listen to them as you would single-artist albums? Do you find that the first five tracks get listened to more than the last five? etc etc.

Comments

[hoshuteki.livejournal.com]

I have no method. In point of fact, the music that is on boxsets (and to a lesser extent, compilations) in my collection is generally far more underappreciated as a result of not really properly being able to get to grips with so. much. music. I generally now just put small chunks of it on my iPod in the hope that something will stick, but I am still a fan of the pop single and (is this a rockist statement) the temporal/thematic unity of an album as a way into music.