Science can make my music collection no smaller than it has now become!
Back in the 80s, early 90s, I owned maybe 5,000 albums. It took up an entire room in my apartment, and I was obsessed with it. In the early 90s I would walk from HMVs on 75th to Tower on 4th street, stopping off at record stores all along the way. In 1989, I spent a year buying every single album (sometimes entire albums for two tracks) Patsy Cline ever released.
I struggled against CDs to the point where I had to buy cassettes because there was no vinyl releases. But eventually and inevitably I did downgrade to CDs, threw out my vinyl, got my bedroom back and my CD collection covered three walls of freshly built shelves.
I didn't change to mp3s immediately, but I did put all my CDs (it took weeks) on my hard drive and it was just a tiny step. Eventually, my record collection took up so much memory I bought a better PC! And eventually, I boxed up my CDs and shook hands with the devil, Steve Jobs.
Jobs has made a fortune off me! Hundreds of dollars a week.
Until last week. Now I am moving my mp3s to an outside hard drive, mostly closing down ITunes and all my record collection (an old fashioned term, I don't buy own any at all of course) is the size of an app. I carry one million ALBUMS in my pocket!