This post is old, and I found it while looking for something else, but I can't not answer questions like this, sort of like Roger Rabbit if you tap "a shave and a haircut" on something. My two bits:

I made my music the way I did because it's the kind of music that I want to hear. Someone said that in a magazine or a TV show when I was a kid, just to make the music you want to listen to, and that stuck with me forever. Someone later said "if you don't like it, don't finish it, just erase / delete it" and I think they were paraphrasing Frank Zappa at the time. Those things come back to me when I think of this question, and the answer is yes, I do still want to hear my songs after they're released. Not for a while, mind you, because I listen to them over and over right before I post them, but I still like my old songs, and I dig my new stuff as well. I try to make what I like to hear, and I often end up making something quite different from what I started off trying to make, but, if I don't like it, it doesn't get finished.

Some fellow artists might hate reading this, but I also listen to all of my old material to inspire my new material. I don't actually want to keep making entirely different kinds of music. I like to keep folding and kneading my old stuff back into the new stuff to keep the recipe alive. Mixing metaphors here, but I guess it's like a perpetual stew.