Don't be put off by all the fancy language, or worry that you are supposed to find Beethoven amazing straight away (you probably won't). It's just music. Really good music. And you don't need to dress up and shell out $200 for concert tickets to get into it. All you need is a bunch of MP3s, and most importantly, determination: don't expect to make any sense of even a single movement until you've heard it at least 10 times.