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

[mooxyjoo.livejournal.com]

in the last few years i've been 'learning' 'beg, scream, and shout', 'american pop', and the chess blues box on my ipod. mainly by deliberately selecting some songs to throw onto a playlist until i got to the point where i had a feel for each box set and naturally felt like i wanted to hear them and could pick songs at will.

but i don't have that much room on my ipod (history of bebop set), or that much dedication (punk-into-postpunk set), so not every box set gets this treatment.