As consumers, we are given many options when it comes to how we listen to music, but by far the most popular is downloading mp3s. Mp3s digitize the music and ultimately make it more accessible and portable for everyday users. People with phones or mp3 devices easily carry around thousands of songs in their pockets, a feat that is quite impossible with CD’s or even the bigger vinyl. But are we actually listening to those thousand songs? Not in the qualitative sense but literally. I am certain that no one has ever listened to all their songs straight through because we all have those few songs that we skip over when they come on. Aside from quantity, some argue that we are sacrificing quality by listening to music digitally. Quality in this argument is not subjective, there are actual sound quality differences between mp3s, CD’s and vinyls dealing with the compression of the musical information in each format. But since musical quality is becoming a non factor for more and more individuals, I guess it’s satisfactory.