<p>Gear Acquisition Syndrome, or GAS, affects people with many interests: musicians, photographers, and audiophiles. We discuss how this syndrome can affect people, and why people just want to keep buying more gear.</p>

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<li><a href="https://www.musicradar.com/news/7-stages-of-gear-acquisition-syndrome" rel="nofollow">The 7 key stages of Gear Acquisition Syndrome</a></li>
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Episode #279: Lyrics

Doug Adams and Kirk McElhearn discuss music and musicians, and how we listen to music, whether it be analog or digital, downloaded or streamed, audio, or video.