The title was difficult to word, so lemme explain. Imagine there’s this guy, let’s call him Phil. Phil is your friend and he’s cool and all, makes you laugh hysterically, but he has this one flaw. Phil is an insufferable music snob. Terrible, right? He refuses to listen to anything you try to play for him and thinks the stuff that he listens to is the best, doesn’t understand why you like what you do (whatever that might be). You’re still buds with him, you’ve just realized not to play your music around him. It’s all good.
Now, which would be worse?
A) Phil only has a couple hundred songs in his music library (of whatever genre/s). He’s not interested/too lazy to go search out anymore, or maybe he can’t comprehend how much music is really out there. Whatever. Point is, he doesn’t have much variety.
B) Phil has about 300GB of music. He even carries around an extra laptop everywhere just to hold it! There are dozens (if not more) genres of music, and thousands of albums. He’s got Paula Abdul next to Pink Floyd; bubblegum dance pop next to black metal. He has hundreds of well-known bands and thousands of obscure ones. Doesn’t matter whether it’s Brokencyde or The Beatles, it’s on that laptop. Unfortunately, he listens to approx. 1% of it – say, oh, three thousand songs. See, Phil for whatever reason collects all this music (maybe he’s OCD). He tells others how great it is to be musically broad. If you say "Nah dude I don’t really like dig rap" or "I can’t stand metal, man", he gives you a look and tells you how you’re missing out***. He’s a good friend but he’s not perfect, and you hate his superior attitude. Funny thing is, Phil might hear a song and think "Well that doesn’t sound bad" so he adds the entire discography to his library. BUT, if it doesn’t automatically catch his ear, he never listens to it again. He doesn’t realize this though and continues to add music to his collection and tell people what a wealth of knowledge he is.
Now – which is more annoying to you? In both cases, Phil isn’t the All-Knowing Music Guru that he erroneously believes he is. Which would you prefer him to be out of these 2 options and why?
Try to answer in terms of the question, not in terms of "Well he doesn’t know a lot so I could introduce him to good bands" or "Whoa he’s got a ton of music I’ll never have to pay for another album again!". Thanks. 
***For the sake of the question, let’s pretend that you happen to enjoy the only type of music he loathes – perhaps he was trapped in an elevator as a child and forced to listen to it all day. Poor guy, not his fault really.
Haha just random thinking, then I embellished it a bit while making the question. ;D
Sorry Clampinon, let’s pretend it’s a couple dozen. I don’t have the biggest library myself but I know a lot of people in R&P do, so I figured I’d try to make it a small number without being laughable, like 10 songs or something. We would never be able to take Phil’s claims seriously then.
Thanks idiot kid! 
I’m just curious as to what others thought, and where better to pose this question than R&P?
sugaree: True, but nobody’s perfect. Phil really is a cool guy once ya get to know him – but everyone knows not to bring up the subject of music around him. :O
Lol I dunno this isn’t based on anything in true life so I’m trying to make it up as I go along, but you’re right – it is choosing the lesser of two evils. So which is the lesser for you?
Okay so I think a few people misunderstood my point – whether he (or you) have 50 songs or 50,000 is irrelevant. The point is, he’s being a butthole either way, but which would annoy you more? It’s not so much a question of the music as it is how you would react….it’s more of a Psychology question I guess but I was still curious about what the members of R&P thought. I didn’t mean to offend anyone.
I love dance remixes. I have about 65GB of them. I wager that I’m worse. But, I look back fondly on remixes, years down the line. I remember where 25 years ago Shep Pettibone did his first remix for Madonna. And, up to today, I love the Wideboys Club Mix of Cascada’s "Evacuate the Dancefloor".
EDIT: I thought I typed this already. B is worse. But, I am reflective of B. Oh well.
EDIT: Well, in that case, A is worse. If Phil was represented by option B, it would should show that he had an open mind to what is actually out there, before sorting out his dislikes. Being the A personality would simply be foolish.
January 17th, 2010 at 4:33 pm
LMFAO!!! And how did you come up with this???
Anyway, better plenty than not enough ans I’d make the guy listen to more music styles that he actually does (Hey! I’m a woman, I rule!!! lol)
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January 17th, 2010 at 4:57 pm
I’ve been in situations like this before. The one where he only likes a few and doesn’t take advice is worse. It is just about the most annoying thing in the world.
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January 17th, 2010 at 5:34 pm
i think a several hundred is a lot in the first place, i have 470 that only take up 750 MB, so i dont think i should answer this question
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January 17th, 2010 at 6:22 pm
id rather he be like option A than like option B because you make it sound like he doesn’t care either way, so just don’t talk about it and you could be really good friends, but with option B you make it sound like all he does is talk about how great his music library is and i would get pissed and puch him in the face more than likely.
trust me, i have friends in both of these catagories. Option A’s are easier for me personally to deal with than Option B’s.
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January 17th, 2010 at 6:51 pm
I’d prefer A. A seemingly being the option where Phil doesn’t run his yap constantly. I suppose that makes B worse. A is a situation that is easy to work around. I used to get sort of wrapped up in being like, "Dude you have to check this band out, they rule," and wanting everyone to like them but I don’t really care about that stuff anymore. If Phil wants to listen to a few hundred songs for the rest of his life that’s his affair. I like what I like, I’m not concerned in the slightest with spreading the word about bands.
See the B option sounds like I have to hear Phil jabber on about stuff. This I shall not do.
Also, Option B Phil with his computer in tow would lead to issues as I have a rep to maintain and foolios walking around with me toting computers would do damage to it. I’m so vain and yes that song IS about me.
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In general, when choosing between the lesser of two evils, I choose the evil I haven’t tried yet.
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January 17th, 2010 at 7:29 pm
This question is awesome! So I went back and forth on the options, and I’ve come to the conclusion that the first option is preferable. Both would be frustrating, but at least he wouldn’t be fake if he just had the small amount of music that he actually listened to.
So, yeah. Good question.
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January 17th, 2010 at 7:58 pm
either way…choosing the lesser of 2 evils is still opting for evil.
really, he wouldn’t be a friend if he’s a douche, especially about music. and that’s what phil sounds like to me.
he’s not a cool guy if you can’t talk about music around him. there isn’t a lesser. it’s the same either way. i wouldn’t be his friend because that’s what will eventually happen anyway, so it’s a waste of time to try.
however, if you wanted to be phil’s friend scenario a would be the best of the 2.
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January 17th, 2010 at 8:29 pm
To keep it short, B is probably much more annoying. And I already have a friend who matches the description of A, except that his library consists of about 20-30 songs.
Deep answer, no?
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January 17th, 2010 at 8:36 pm
I love dance remixes. I have about 65GB of them. I wager that I’m worse. But, I look back fondly on remixes, years down the line. I remember where 25 years ago Shep Pettibone did his first remix for Madonna. And, up to today, I love the Wideboys Club Mix of Cascada’s "Evacuate the Dancefloor".
EDIT: I thought I typed this already. B is worse. But, I am reflective of B. Oh well.
EDIT: Well, in that case, A is worse. If Phil was represented by option B, it would should show that he had an open mind to what is actually out there, before sorting out his dislikes. Being the A personality would simply be foolish.
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