The scene I identified with the most was the one in which Rob's friends upbraid him for stacking his records horizontally (which messes up the grooves), and he shakes head, acknowledging the problem but doing nothing about it. He loves music, but he doesn't take steps to protect it, because on some level he wants to lose what he loves, which is of course metaphoric for his love life as well.
Swede Pop link: From Hello Saferide's bouncy "I Was Definitely Made for These Times." A self-absorbed young woman boasts of her coolness and modernity, "I can make the meanest daiquiri, I can quote all of High Fidelity." The portrait is pretty savage: "I won't commit to you but I'll hold you when you cry." Like Rob, the song's protagonist uses music to avoid feeling, and so she doesn't see herself in the flaws of the film's central character. Annika Norlin (Hello Saferide) obviously sees herself as having more in common with the song that her protagonist references, Brian Wilson's "I Just Wasn't Made for These Times"
Ironically, Norlin's song was used (apparently unironically) in a Volvo commercial to illustrate the coolness of the car and its drivers: https://youtu.be/OuL_7oo4g6g
