Week 2 – really what do you do with CD’s now?

A combination of boredom and winter madness has set in. Over the weekend I did things that I’d been putting off for a long time.  I cleaned off the smallest of our bookshelves alphabetized the books by author, and removed the CDs. Now that my music collection is digital I see little reason to keep the cracked, dust lined cases around anymore. So I stashed the husband’s CDs into a Tupperware box, and listed most of my CDs on eBay.  So if you’ve been waiting to get your hands on ‘TOTO- Past to Present 1977-1990’ in “mint condition” for $0.99 (wow a whole CD for the cost of one song on iTunes-that's a deal) now’s the time.

 
In this cleaning I discovered a handful of TAPES! I know somewhere in my piles of stuff there are boxes of mixed tapes (and a copy Milli Vanilli that Camila Sinden gave at my 13th birthday) that  I don't have the heart to discard. At least we still have the archaic technology to play tapes still.  It's times like these when I remember cleaning the attic with my father and finding old warped records, reel to reels, and boxes upon boxes of 8-tracks.  This was in the early 90's when we sill had a reel-to-reel player but no record player, and we certainly didn't have an 8-track player.   We live in a world where technology is changing every decade so that we have to re-purchase the songs that we love- tell me record companies aren't funding the evolving cycles. Our music becomes archived on instruments that are only relevant to the era they exists in. When do we stop consuming, and re-consuming the music we love?   At least, at least, I live in a city where radio doesn't suck.  Because even as I complain about the medias I consume music in, my love and need for quality radio stations has not changed.