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.
