Are You An Audiophile Or A Music Lover?


Try to imagine yourself in the following fantasy:

In your youth you foolishly make a deal with Satan whereby he immediately gives you whatever you desire (wealth, talent, fame, etc.). You in turn grant Satan the right that at some future date he can take from you something you value. Years later you're sitting in your professionally designed, acoustically perfect music room listening to a selection from your 10,000+ music collection on your $500,000+ system. Suddenly there's a knock on the door. It's his Satanic Majesty and it's payback time. You think he's going to take your soul, but surprisingly he gives you a choice. You can either keep your system, but you'll only be able to listen to a single piece of music - forever, or you can keep the 10,000+ music collection, but you can only listen to it over a sub $100 boombox - again, forever. Which would you chose?

Bonus points if you made your deal with the devil after midnight at the crossroads.
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I would imagine old Nick would be over subscribed with Car Salesman and Lawyers...........
You're close Craig: A CPA (Tax Director). Knew there must be a loophole. Have to deal with those horned buggers at Treasury regularly.
You guys are dreaming. The devil won't give you a choice--and if he did--he'ld still take the one that you couldn't live without.
Onhwy61 - Well knowing my nature, I would have probably taken the wealth or talent over the fame and certainly can't think of any other options that would be more appealing than either of those two, even as a youth. Question is which one would it have been. Maybe I'm thinking this one too much through, but my guess is the wealth.

At the point Lucifer poses the dilemma to me, I'm sure I would have to pick the music with the boombox. Unfortunately for "hi-end listening" that would only leave me with the unlimited live music at my disposal at any venue any time any place in the world. Tough choice, but sometimes in life we have to make sacrifices.