My Obsessive Collecting Gene

While organizing my MP3 collection today I discovered a rather disturbing fact: I now have 38 live Wilco shows that I’ve collected over the years.  This adds up to 9.82 gigabytes of music, 950 songs and over 3 days of continuous live Wilco and does not take into account the large collection of Jeff Tweedy solo shows I have.   The only other live music in my collection that beats that currently is my Grateful Dead bootleg collection.  Besides owning Dick’s Pick’s 1-35, I own a ton of other releases that add up to 20 gigs of music, over 1500 songs and over 8 days of continuous live Grateful Dead.  My current count of my music collection is over 37,000 songs, over 260 gigabytes of music and I could play music for 24 hours a day for 113 straight days and never hear the same mp3 twice…