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Sox:
Welcome to the first audioholics anonymous meeting. The first step to confronting a problem is admitting you have one.
I know it's not an easy first step, so I'll go first...

My name is Darryl and I am an audioholic.

I guess it started when I was about 12 and I started listening to pop punk casually, with my friends. It's fairly harmless, y'know? Most of them grew out of it as they started going to college, getting jobs and stuff...
...but I didn't, I just kept at it...
Eventually pop punk wasn't enough and I needed something more. People began to notice something was up pretty quickly...I'd spend a lot of time in my room not talking to anybody. I was buying CDs, man. All kinds of CDs. I didn't even realise how bad it'd gotten until I dropped all my money on an ATDI album and spent the entire night on the bathroom floor. Every penny I had was being spent on music, I needed the next fix. If I wasn't listening to music, I was a wreck. I lost my friends, I alienated my family...I even sold all my videogames and a guitar in order to score some new music...
I was hooked. When I couldn't afford new music...
I even resorted to stealing. Just booting up the old soulseek and stealing music while nobody was watching. Using photocopied moneys, stealing cash from old people, selling all my parent's furniture, Anything for that next hit. Morally reprehensible, but I didn't care, I needed it. I lived on the streets for a while with some honkies downtown. One of us scored some Modest Mouse and we listened to it under the bridge. It was the middle of November and I got hypothermia. They called an ambulance and dumped me at the side of the road. It was when I was lying there in hospital I was forced to admit I have a problem.
Now I've done myself permanent damage and I want to get clean. It's the single biggest problem in my life and I know that confronting it like this is the only way I'm going to get better. I ruined my life and the lives of those around me.

Okay, if any of you want to share your stories or tell us about your addiction, just come to the front and share with us. We won't judge you, we're all friends here.

Yayniall:
I record the music straight off of the radio and then use it to make my own radio show using this;

scarred:
My name is Nick and I am an audioholic.

It first started in 8th grade. I had a 40 minute bus ride home from school, and being the socially inept introvert that I was at the time, I had no one to accompany me but my discman (yes this was back in the days before iPods, fuuuuck). I asked for nothing but CDs for birthday and Christmas and constantly weaseled money out of my parents for more. What little free time I had that wasn't spent masturbating or playing Starcraft online, I made mixes on iTunes. I listened to music for an hour or more every night in bed, before falling asleep. It was a horrible time, o my brothers.

Even a year later, when I burst onto the social scene, this breakout was helped very much by the fact that my newfound friends were accepting of my mix CDs, they even said they enjoyed them and would give me CDs of their own. At the same time, I discovered LimeWire, and soon I ventured forth into the realm of illegal downloading. That same year the first iPod came out. I was doomed.

Then salvation came. In the middle of a download of the Pavement discography the RIAA sent fourteen high-tech raiding parties into my home, brutally killing my younger brother and maiming my father in attempts to get at me, from behind the fortress of CD cases I'd built around my room. I poured molten Green Day CDs onto them from the flying buttresses. The siege lasted three days, but finally I was captured and brought to a rehabilitation facility in North Dakota. After multiple escape attempts, I was put in solitary confinement and forced to listen to nothing but Johann Sebastian Bach. 8 months later I was deemed fit for release, on the terms that I meet with this group once a month.

So, here I am. My hobbies include meditating, going for walks in the woods, and crying myself to sleep.

Tom:
Guys, I'm here to support you all the way. I'm so proud of you for taking up the courage to come here today. I too was once addicted, but I've taken my life and my ears back.

David_Dovey:
I am an audioholic!

I am addicted to audiohol!

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