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

[barrysarll.livejournal.com]

In the last christmas sales, I got a 3CD Tom Waits and a 4CD Jake Thackray box of stuff I didn't know. I generally listened to each disc like I would an album, but making sure to leave gaps of other stuff in between to prevent surfeit and 'it all sounds the same'. I will now generally get the urge to hear a particular track, and then chuck the relevant disc on - but I know I am far more of a by-album listener than most on poptimists.