Music has just become so cheap these days, meaning it is so easily obtained. I constantly have a huge list of albums I'm trying to squeeze in to my busy schedule. To the point that I don't really give them the time they deserve to really grow on me. That was not the case in the past. You relied on saving up your hard earned money to buy something, getting a tape from friends, or listening to the radio. When you got something good you wore it out. Now there are just too many others in the queue. Every year I say I'm going to buy less and listen more like I used to but every year I'm trying one album after another. But to answer the original question, once I find a great album (like Atlas by Real Estate this year) I will throw on the headphones and listen and not play on my phone or whatever and I get transported.
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