Places I remember

I've been a huge music fan all my life, probably a bit too much so. Even today I maintain a YouTube Music subscription, which, according to YouTube Music, gives me access to over 100 million songs.

And then there's my personal collection purchased throughout the years, first on 45's, then LP albums, and finally CD's. I don't recall the last album I bought, but I do remember the first 45. "Cathy's Clown", 1960, $1.02 with tax. 

A dozen or so years ago, I digitized all the analog LP's along with my 400+ CD's. All 78 GB of it now on my NAS (Network-Attached Server). I can listen to it wherever and whenever I wish. I still have two storage boxes containing around 200 or so 45's.

Do I listen enough to justify having bought it all in multiple formats, the equipment to play it, particularly in light of having the YTM subscription?

No. But I do so enough not to regret it or to cancel the subscription.

Music is my "time machine" connection to, as the Beatles sang, "people and things that went before". A sort of theme song for my interest in the multiverse.

What connects you?