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When I buy a new CD I try to make it through the lyric sheet and liner notes during the first listen. I'm a young guy, but I prefer to enjoy music the old fashioned way. I drop the disc in my stereo, put on my good headphones, crack open the case, still smelling of the thick wrapping plastic, pry out the lyric sheet and read through whilst jamming. Helps me learn the songs better too.

I don't listen to shitty, derivative bands, so I always find a handful of standout tracks on most albums, unless the album totally sucks or vice versa and it's a masterpiece and I fall in love with every chord (ie: Maiden's Number of the Beast or Entombed's Left Hand Path).

I just don't obsess over the lyrics like I used to. I'd study them til I had them memorized. Now I usually will read the lyrics fist time I listen to a cd (when provided of course) and that's about it, unless somewhere down the line there's a part of a song I can't understand what's being said and don't remember what it's supposed to say.

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I just don't obsess over the lyrics like I used to. I'd study them til I had them memorized. Now I usually will read the lyrics fist time I listen to a cd (when provided of course) and that's about it, unless somewhere down the line there's a part of a song I can't understand what's being said and don't remember what it's supposed to say.

This is the same way as me!

Yes I read the lyrics
Yes, even though I have roughly 72 hours worth of music if I played it straight
It changes, I have those songs I can always listen to, but favorites do shift.

I used to be really good about reading lyrics but I've gotten lazy in recent years, mostly just because I've got more distractions now and it's hard to carve out time to just sit back and listen to the music while reading the lyrics as they're being sung.