2000 Great Songs #1511: You Never Give Me Your Money
The problem with having too much music--and man, do I have way too much music--is that when you're scrolling around your collection to figure out what you feel like listening to next, you can go into brainlock, and then you end up turning to the same shortlist of a couple dozen albums that are always top of mind. And you don't want to do that if you can avoid it, because you've heard those way too many times in your lifetime, and you'd rather spin something new, or dust off something from the nether reaches of your collection, but you just can't decide and before you know it the Beatles ' Abbey Road is playing again. I just checked, and there are currently 18,538 albums in my digital library, ripped from 18,538 CDs--just shy of 1,000 days of music (3 years!) played without interruption. And, yeah, that's inflated a bit by a thousand or so Dead and Phish shows, but, still, it's a lot of records. So when I wake up each morning, right after I start the co...
