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#2 - iTunes vs. CDs
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drumdreez
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21 November 2012
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This morning my mother gave me the task of cleaning my room. Instead of cleaning my room, I stared at my CD collection for a few hours and pretended to organize it.
After moving the CDs around randomly so it would like I was doing something productive, I started to count how many I actually own and ended up at 107 CDs total.
I personally find it strange that kids of my generation (for the most part) don't even buy CDs anymore and rely on iTunes or pirating the music online. First of all, I don't like pirating because seriously, support the artist. That one's a no-brainer. Second, the whole idea of being able to buy one song from an album is really weird to me. In my opinion, the only reason the popular artists on today's radio are so popular is because you can buy the one good song they have on an album of completely crappy music. If you can convince a bunch of kids to buy the one song, then bam, you've got a "hit."
I think it's strange that kids aren't into records and vinyls anymore either. I think vinyls are the coolest thing in the world. In fact, today I went out and bought a turntable so that I could start buying records and actually be able to listen to them.
Somehow listening to music on a record player or CD player just makes it seem more real to me. I was just listening to Less Than Jake's album Anthem on my CD player. The batteries died and I couldn't find new ones so now I'm listening to it on my computer and the experience seems completely different somehow, even though it's the exact same album.
I've lost my train of thought so I'll end this here before I stopped make sense.
Basically, iTunes is shit and CDs/records aren't. Peace out kiddos.
After moving the CDs around randomly so it would like I was doing something productive, I started to count how many I actually own and ended up at 107 CDs total.
I personally find it strange that kids of my generation (for the most part) don't even buy CDs anymore and rely on iTunes or pirating the music online. First of all, I don't like pirating because seriously, support the artist. That one's a no-brainer. Second, the whole idea of being able to buy one song from an album is really weird to me. In my opinion, the only reason the popular artists on today's radio are so popular is because you can buy the one good song they have on an album of completely crappy music. If you can convince a bunch of kids to buy the one song, then bam, you've got a "hit."
I think it's strange that kids aren't into records and vinyls anymore either. I think vinyls are the coolest thing in the world. In fact, today I went out and bought a turntable so that I could start buying records and actually be able to listen to them.
Somehow listening to music on a record player or CD player just makes it seem more real to me. I was just listening to Less Than Jake's album Anthem on my CD player. The batteries died and I couldn't find new ones so now I'm listening to it on my computer and the experience seems completely different somehow, even though it's the exact same album.
I've lost my train of thought so I'll end this here before I stopped make sense.
Basically, iTunes is shit and CDs/records aren't. Peace out kiddos.
