All you downloaders; How has the ability to get any album you want, at any time of the day, sometimes months before it's officially released, affected your music taste and listening habits?

I've recently been loading random stuff from my downloaded collection onto my mp3 player and putting it on random, and realising that there's tons of stuff that I've downloaded and maybe skimmed through (Sparklehorse's Good Morning Spider, The Ponys Laced With Romance ). If I'd bought those albums, I'd have listened to them to death. I've also got loads of stuff I listened to for two or three days and really loved (Akron/Family), then abandoned in favour of the next thing I downloaded.

I think downloading has widened my taste, but absolutely destroyed my attention span, to the extent that if I've not downloaded anything recently, I think 'I've got nothing to listen to' even though I've got an obscene number of tracks. If a new band's mentioned on here, I've probably heard them already, so that's a good thing, but I probably won't remember what they sounded like, and have to go back and check them out again.
I feel like a kid in a candy shop where everything's free, and I'm getting worried about the long term affect on my musical health...

So, anyone else got this problem? Anyone else long for a return to the days of not being able to hear something unless you've paid for it?
And all you guys who don't download, why not? Is it a purely moral stand against piracy, or is it a technopobic thing?


(PS To try and pre-empt the 'dirty pirate scumbag' comments: I buy any album that I download and love. I'm actually buying a lot more albums now than I did before I got broadband, usually by 'underground' artists who need my £8 way more than the commercial crap I used to blindly buy before.)