Meet my album collection! I’ve always had a big interest in music. Growing up, life wasn’t the easiest and the best escape I had from all the problems that came from my situation would be music, When it comes to the music itself, I don’t need to be in a specific place or have a specific time to enjoy it, all I need is a pair of headphones and it feels like I’m transported into a world of my own. I’m not very comfortable with sharing those experiences but they do come from a place of childhood trauma and around 10-11 years old is when I started to realize that I had a really big interest in music and the way it makes me feel when I listen to it. I am very invested in listening to different genres/sub-genres and albums that artists put out in those genres to be able to better understand different song meanings/lyrics, genres that I’m interested in most of the time would be R&B, k-pop, hip hop, funk, soul, neo-soul (sub-genre of soul), These genres are ones that I listen to almost daily and there are a couple of other genres that I occasionally enjoy but the ones listed are ones that I have a vested interest in. It’s honestly really fun to see how these artists would use their music and create music videos to not only create audio art but pair it with a great piece of visual art! Around high school, I decided to start collecting physical versions of these albums that I really enjoyed as memorabilia and to be able to enjoy the uncompressed files that are burned onto the cd discs themselves once I get older, it’s a great memory of how it felt to enjoy music and how peaceful it could be when you’re submerged in the different melodies, harmonies, etc. Many people wonder why I collect albums when everything nowadays is digital and there are streaming services, I am subscribed to a streaming service but my main focus on collecting albums is to have memorabilia, I also am really into collecting because streaming services can easily become obsolete one day (which I highly doubt will happen because of society depending on technology for everything), but I won’t have that problem because I have all my favorite albums on CD 😉 . Some of the albums in this picture were very hard to come across since they were put out years ago and are not in print anymore (somewhere around 2007-2009) and cost thousands of dollars to get your hands on nowadays. I am very proud of my collection because it just reminds me of the times when I would really enjoy the music on them and when something good happened around the time I was enjoying these albums. I don’t plan on giving up my collection and see myself keeping them for as long as I can!