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Thread #173701 Message #4212834
Posted By: GUEST,Jerry
04-Dec-24 - 03:59 AM
Thread Name: 'Do you still own a CD player?'
Subject: RE: 'Do you still own a CD player?'
I blame the car manufacturers. I was quite happy for some years buying and listening to cassettes in my car (and vinyl at home), until my new car had a CD player. I then got wedded to CDs for years, which could also be played at home. Now cars don’t have CD players fitted, so I have to record my vinyl, CDs or even cassettes onto a memory stick to be able to listen to them when driving, which is like reverting to the old days of laboriously compiling cassette tapes of your own favourites. I know you can do that digitally with iPods now, but the car manufacturers assume we all just want to listen to new freely available mainstream stuff all the time, and never revisit older music we might have collected, or indeed explore older or non-mainstream music.