With my ipod, albums have become a back up tool. In the last year, I've found that after loading an album onto the ipod, it gets tossed into an ever growing pile of red and white and olive green albums near my CD stand. I rarely spin disks on my stereo anymore because I have my ipod wired to it, so the disks and covers and plastic have become, basically, useless. I could put them on ebay or sell them to a second hand store and fund the purchase of new music and books, but... well, if my ipod fucks up or goes missing, I'll have to spent weeks downloading and burning and thousands repurchasing what is about fifteen years worth of music. And if record executives raid me and scream, "You didn't pay for that Patti Smith album, did you?" I'll have nothing to prove that I did, indeed, pay ten bucks for it.
My albums are my back ups.
My albums are my back ups.
- Notes:Patti Smith - Land
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And yes, the CDs are also our back up for the music on i-tunes.
as redundant as my cds have become, i still like the look of shelves filled with cds.
john
Sorry, what do you mean that there's no i-tunes Australia? That's it, I can't move to a country that doesn't have i-tunes ;) I am going to ask DIMIA for a refund on my visa. (And as one, the Australians all shout "good luck getting DIMIA to do anything")
Note to self: Start bitching to mates who work for Apple in CA so that they can get a move on.
but this guy in my class just got one. he also just got an FM transmitter for it. he relayed an ironic story to me about how how long it took him to get the FM thing to work, when he could have far more easily put the CD (which was sitting in front of him) into the stereo and saved heaps of effort.
also, i just spring-cleaned my hard drive(s) and spent the last few days ripping all my discs onto my PC. it's good just hitting shuffle and having several days worth of music play repeatedly.