I love to see fits of unfettered passion.
We're all different beasts and we all consume the same material differently. I own somewhere in the neighborhood of 500 records and 1000 CDs, through a mixture of passive and active collecting over about 25 years. 8 years running a record store definitely didn't hurt.
I just hope that the minority of passionate, album-oriented, heartbroken, loving teenagers grow into the type of adults who pass their passions on to their own children and keep the album-oriented fan legacy of the Beatles alive for at least another 10 years (I'm being realistic here. As much ...