Comments on: Meaning

by: Liz

Fri, 23 Mar 2007 23:22:16 +0000

I like the art on the album covers. I guess it’s why I like getting my New Yorkers (for their covers) and McSwys better than just reading the content online. When someone has made an effort for the packaging to be more than just packaging, then you’re getting something else. On the other hand, I really like not having stacks of cds around. I know this will make you cringe, the same way it would if someone didn’t like having books around, but it’s so much clutter. I’ve always loved music, but not the way I love books. I don’t know why.

by: Patsy

Fri, 23 Mar 2007 13:42:07 +0000

When I was little we bought 45″s and played them on our record player. We played them over and over again, picking up the needle and putting it, very carefully, back to the beginning line of the song. When you played the song so many times the record wore out and you needed to buy a new one. Then 8 tracks came into being—-I spent many wasted minutes rewinding a song in order to hear it again. Sometimes I would rewind too far and the 8 track would flip over to the “other side” and I would be lost somewhere in 8 track land until my favorite song came along again. Cassette tapes came next, easier to store in your car, but not too much different from an 8 track. Finally, and most wonderfully, CD’s. With the press of a button you could move instantly anywhere on the disc. I still can’t get over it–that’s how old I am. However, no matter how many new gadgets come into being, you can’t take away my memory of laying on the floor of my first apartment in Reston Virginia and listening to Joni’s Blue album while reading the inside of the cover, over and over again, while the guy downstairs banged on the ceiling.

by: Melissa

Thu, 22 Mar 2007 22:45:09 +0000

i agree with most of what you said, but i hate storing the actual cds! i hate having to find space for them! and i’m too lazy to organizing them alphabetically when its so easy to organize music on my iPod or computer. also, i’m a creature that gets bored easily and can’t very well listen to one whole album in a sitting. i am the queen of mixed cds. i need to have variety. and again, the laziness thing comes in to place. i hate having to hunt for the next song i want to listen to, and then find that album and then insert that cd…….its just easier to just make playlists.

by: Krista

Thu, 22 Mar 2007 22:02:19 +0000

Why Liz? Why were you happy to have it in physical form?? I want to know reasons? What if they just emailed you the mp3s?

by: Liz

Thu, 22 Mar 2007 19:29:01 +0000

I can’t remember the last time I bought a cd. Though I did get the new Shins album for my bday and was very happy to have it in physical form.