How we consume music. Or is it just me?

I'm getting more and more fed up with how I consume music. I get say 1-5 albums per week, I usually find one of them, or at least one every two weeks to be amazing.

But, and it's a big one. 3 weeks or so later I hardly listen to it anymore. It's nowhere near how I used to consume music before. I bought cd's, played them non stop for weeks on end. I must've heard Depeche Mode - Violator hundreds of time in its entirety.

Is it as easy as that you think? Instead of getting music 'free', I sacrifice £10ish and therefor value the music more. Economically I have no excuse what so ever for not paying for my music, still I don't. I claim to be a music lover, but rarely listen to albums more than 5-10 times.

Perhaps this is the new way of listening to music? In a ever more saturated world we appreciate things shorter and shorter? I don't want that.

Perhaps I should just go and buy some records?
i think you've hit the nail on the head there, i really think the art of digging and longing to find something speacial is lost, the moment you pull that sought after cd or record from the rack, and the time you spend listening to it is always more memorable than the time you downloaded a track, even if it turns out to be shit.