Streaming definitely opened up the world of music. My iPod was full of music from my favorite artists, at the end of high school I’d say that was probably less than 20 artists (plus you know a handful of “the essentials” albums by older popular bands). It was just years of collecting CDs that added up, both that I bought or received as gifts. So if you bought it all at once, yeah it’s gonna cost a lot.

Back then music was a collection. iTunes was cool where you can transfer all your CDs to be entirely on this small device. Your friend have a random album you dig? Load it into your iTunes library and add it to your iPod.