Addicted to downloading music?

maby if u got addicted to something else such as crack, this problem would be solved

While im not addicted to downloading music i am addicted to downloading programs. For some reason whenever im connected to the internet i must download computer programs. Programs which i will never use but download anyway. Same ay with games and movies. My start menu completely fills up my screen when its open. I have over 100 games, and over 100 movies. The only way ive delt with it is by getting rid of fast internet and went back to dial up. Incredibly slow but i dont download anywhere near as much as i did before. Even on fast internet connections.

I'm obsessed too. I downloaded so much stuff last year, it filled up my computer's hard drive and I couldn't use it any more. I had videos, mp3s, .wav music files, screensavers, gif animations....... I'm still that way though.

Everyone who knows me keeps saying things like "You shouldn't download so much," or "You'll crash your computer." I keep telling myself that the really cute gif animation or whatever will be on the net tomorrow if I look for it. And I don't have to download it, but I still do.

I've figured out though that if I save them on discs or usb flash drives, I can have more and more and more.... I might even have 2 or 3 copies of the same ones and my mind tells me I don't have to do this, but another part of it says, "You've lost all your songs and gifs before, save as many as you can so you never lose them again."

I'm a nutcase. Just a rambling, obsessed psycho nutcase.

i agree with "buriedalive" and "War Lord" i do the SAME thing! i don't even think i go through like week without downloading the latest music or song I heard on the radio. and i tried to stop to but it's sooo hard when you know you can listen to that song whenever with one click of a button on your computer. and i don't listen to the songs for more than a while either but have them in iTunes and skip them when they come up. FINALLY!! some1 else w/ my same situation!

Atleast you have a clean addiction.

I am addicted to downloading music as well I am pirate I love to hear the newest song or album so I use utorrent and download it I know it's stealing and that wrong but I do it anyway I know one day I might get caught but I don't have the money to buy music my family wants me to quite I love getting away with it
God doesn't want me doing it how do I quit?? I keep deleting the app then days later I download the app again and start all over again it's a pattern or cycle
I need help, can anyone give me advice on what to do to stop this habit thanks...
--Anonymous

Lol maybe that's why I like the show Hoarders. But I don't really hoard [psychical] things things.. I actually like to keep things clean and simplistic, it makes me feel good. But I am pretty sure I love music. Problem is I have to download 30 songs to get 4 good songs so What I do is get as many as i can so I can weed out the bad/soso ones. I am now a mobile DJ so having all this music is good for requests. Pretty sure I got like 350,000 songs now :]

Yes it's normal, but not healthy. What you are experiencing has nothing to do with the love of music. It's no different than record collectors who live among filth just so they can support their habit of hoarding things. Your habit is on the computer though. You should watch the movie called "Vinyl." He interviews dozens of record collectors and comes to the conclusion all are using their music collecting to avoid dealing with other issues in their lives.....relationships, jobs they hate, being single, etc. Having said that, there are worse habits one could have.....someone mentioned Crack.

I'm the exact same way, haha. I download tons of music daily (full albums) but I do actually get around to listening to all of it eventually.

Yeah me too. I can't go for two days without downloading something. It's just that the feeling of finding an awesome song is so great, that I just keep coming back for more.

Maybe you shoudl try organizing them by genres and start DJing .. :)

you should get addicted to books!!! nahh nvm

I think its not that bad to be addicted to something that is good. I mean at least music a very good thing. Just try to do something that is better then going on the computer and doing something with music. Try learning an instrument or taking a music class

I have exactlly the same probleme just like BuriedAlive

if you like music and you havnt got it and theres a song you really fancy listerning to download it, but well its never not normal to have too much music thats just stupid

its normal, for music fans :D

30 gigs lol I get that a month.....
I got like 500GB of music

:)

Wow, I do the same thing. Yesterday I added like 30 new songs... I listened to like four maybe.

I dunno, maybe it's like a self image thing. If we have a ton of muisc on our iPods, we think were internally cool.

As long as you're not in the house all day just downloading music I guess you're fine.

I'm exactly the same! i don't even listen to half the stuff i download tbh, it's really weird, whenever i'm near the comp i just go on and set up a bunch of downloads, I probably spend more time on shit like mp3raid than with most of my friends >.<
so i think it's normal :)
unless it's actually affecting your everyday life negatively don't worry

Maybe you could be addicted to it, read up on it?
Also, you should fill your time with other things so downloading music isn't on your mind.

call 202-775-0101

RIAA can help! ;)

Ye lol. I download a lot of songs too, I only listen to them a couple of times and then I go get some more.