Albums 4.0 is out today, but rather than wax poetic about its great new features, like Apple Music integration or the Release Feed, I’m going to talk about… myself. You can only weather so many pandemic-induced existential crises before you reluctantly learn something about yourself. I came to a hard-won conclusion this year: instead of cynically dismissing the earnest and joyful parts of myself, the only sustainable path forward is to embrace them. I come to you today in renewed kinship with my 14-year-old self, tirelessly dragging full albums into a specific sort order in Winamp then accidentally overwriting the save file and having to build it all back up again, checking Soulseek and WinMX every day to see if the new Rancid album leaked.
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Albums 4.0 is out today, but rather than wax poetic about its great new features, like Apple Music integration or the Release Feed, I’m going to talk about… myself. You can only weather so many pandemic-induced existential crises before you reluctantly learn something about yourself. I came to a hard-won conclusion this year: instead of cynically dismissing the earnest and joyful parts of myself, the only sustainable path forward is to embrace them. I come to you today in renewed kinship with my 14-year-old self, tirelessly dragging full albums into a specific sort order in Winamp then accidentally overwriting the save file and having to build it all back up again, checking Soulseek and WinMX every day to see if the new Rancid album leaked.