Well I'm 23 and music has changed alot in my short life. My earliest memories of listening to music was mom putting me to bed listening to Handel's Messiah on cassette tape when I was little. The very first thing I ever bought with my own money other than sodas and candy was a Sanyo cd/radio/casette boom box in like 94. I was very floored to have a CD PLAYER (whoa!) AND still be able to play casettes and listen to the radio. It was also awesome to me because it could be run off of like 8 D batteries haha. Anyways, it still works just fine so sometimes cheap electronics do last. My grandfather traveled all around the world working for Christie electronics which is the equipment that movie theaters use. Anyway, he was big into having high fidelity equipment for listening to music and always had the very best at his house. I'm afraid it rubbed off on me and I'm quite the audiophile myself and cannot stand listening to music on crappy headphones or stock car speakers.
I loved cds growing up because they didnt tear up like tapes did and you could burn a copy for your friends pretty easily, which was a illegal but very useful way to grow your music collection fairly quickly. As far as MP3's go, I have mixed feelings about them. The quality is less than a cd, but they never skip. I also like to listen to albums in the sequence the artist wanted you to hear them and am not all about listening to the top 40 singles exclusively. I do have a usb drive full of mp3's and wma rips for my car stereo so I guess I use them but I like to listen to the mp3's in the order they are on the actual album vs. being totally random. Well i'll shut up now and go back to watching the Saints!
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I totally agree about CDs and being able to listen to the songs in the order that the artist intended. That's one of the things I most dislike about mp3s.
ReplyDeleteI remember the change between tapes and CDs too, it was amazing. I'll admit, I do like singles, but if I like it enough I will go out and get the whole CD. And if I really like the CD I'll listen to it in order. I'm a bit like Professor Leonard, I skip songs all of the time. I do dislike songs being random, sometimes.
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