GAS can also be interpreted as Gear Acquisition Syndrome and one that instrumentalists suffer from most frequently
. I think at one time I owned about a $1k worth of saxophone mouthpieces. Not that many of them, just the approx value of what they all were worth. Nuts, huh? And trumpet players I hear are worse but hey, who am I to judge? Hehe...
I love composing...I used to really get into techno/modern compositions then started to write wind ensemble and choral pieces after that, maturing in my composing logic. I love listening to music that others' compose though; its always interesting to hear other ideas and perspectives on music. We only have twelve tones...how different could it be?