I can't play a recording all the way through

Ah, the affliction of the young. Also perhaps an indictment of the new singles driven music scene. 

Have you ever seen a kid on Christmas morning who has found too many toys under the tree. They flit from one to the other never spending time with any one particular toy. When I was young, we'd get a single toy and the rest were practical items (clothes etc.) and we played with that toy and loved it all the time. I still have some of them 50 years on as I view them with great affection.

One the one hand, the availability of music today is astounding but, the smorgasbord of music out there has killed focus and the love of music in general. When you have that much, nothing is special and definitely so when you're talking downloads - music has become ephemeral. A throwaway commodity to be consumed while doing something else. Others are spot on here. Find a few recordings and obsess about them before moving to the next. You may find with time, you learn to love music. That's why I prefer LP's. Their physical nature demands that you sit and listen.

LOL!!! It's always dangerous to assume isn't it. I've heard your comments from a few twenty somethings and I leapt to....well you know.  In a way, I have the same problem but with LP's which now number in excess of 20,000. Picking my daily records for listening is daunting. Sobering is the thought I'll never hear all of them once again in the number of years I have left (63 yrs young).

I've made up my mind I'm not going to die. Problem solved. Now I can buy more records.