I do miss not being expected to have my phone with me all the time
I didn’t have a cell phone for long after they became mainstream. I still remember a friend hitting me up on Facebook with a message saying he had been calling me all day and kept getting VM, asking why I don’t answer my phone. I thoroughly enjoyed saying “I wasn’t home and don’t take my landline with me when I go out”. I do have a cellphone now, and I dislike how people freak out if you don’t respond within 10 minutes. Like, chill the fuck out dude, I’m doing things.
I do miss the era of physical media
I still buy vinyl records, and love listening to them. Thankfully they’re hipster now, so you can get high quality, deep cut records for just about any album. I buy CDs at the thrift store for $0.25-$1.00. I’ve managed to buy every CD I lost throughout my life, plus everything else I always wanted, but couldn’t afford. I even found the Pink Floyd Pulse album in perfect condition for $2.
I figure that’s about what a CD used to cost back in the day, adjusted for inflation. We were paying $16 for a CD back in the early 90’s. Records are probably more expensive to make, and often have really cool artwork as inserts. There’s the thrift store too though. About half of my record collection are original presses that I got from the thrift store for twenty five cents each. They don’t sound as good, but they’re pretty neat. Sometimes I buy a record at the thrift store just because it has cool artwork, like the Chicago album that has pressed engraving artwork, like dollar bills.
Discogs my friend. It’s like a magical bazaar for music.
You can get your music in any format that you like if someone’s selling. And you can even watch an album to be notified if one goes on the market.
There is only one downside: if you want an album but you don’t care about all the minute differences between releases in different regions, you’re going to have to follow all the different versions. It gets… annoying for albums with lots of releases and remasters.
I didn’t have a cell phone for long after they became mainstream. I still remember a friend hitting me up on Facebook with a message saying he had been calling me all day and kept getting VM, asking why I don’t answer my phone. I thoroughly enjoyed saying “I wasn’t home and don’t take my landline with me when I go out”. I do have a cellphone now, and I dislike how people freak out if you don’t respond within 10 minutes. Like, chill the fuck out dude, I’m doing things.
I still buy vinyl records, and love listening to them. Thankfully they’re hipster now, so you can get high quality, deep cut records for just about any album. I buy CDs at the thrift store for $0.25-$1.00. I’ve managed to buy every CD I lost throughout my life, plus everything else I always wanted, but couldn’t afford. I even found the Pink Floyd Pulse album in perfect condition for $2.
Yeah, but super expensive. My daughter loves vinyl, but we never buy anything new because you’re going to spend at least $30 for anything decent.
I figure that’s about what a CD used to cost back in the day, adjusted for inflation. We were paying $16 for a CD back in the early 90’s. Records are probably more expensive to make, and often have really cool artwork as inserts. There’s the thrift store too though. About half of my record collection are original presses that I got from the thrift store for twenty five cents each. They don’t sound as good, but they’re pretty neat. Sometimes I buy a record at the thrift store just because it has cool artwork, like the Chicago album that has pressed engraving artwork, like dollar bills.
Edit: wow, CDs actually cost more back then adjusted for inflation. $36.12 in 1992.
Adjusted for inflation, maybe. But records used to be cheaper than CDs.
Discogs my friend. It’s like a magical bazaar for music.
You can get your music in any format that you like if someone’s selling. And you can even watch an album to be notified if one goes on the market.
There is only one downside: if you want an album but you don’t care about all the minute differences between releases in different regions, you’re going to have to follow all the different versions. It gets… annoying for albums with lots of releases and remasters.
That’s a lot less fun than going to a used record store or an antique mall though. That’s what we do.
For sure. They’re not a thing over here unfortunately. Maybe if I’m lucky I find something in a popup car boot sale.
Whatever the case, I’m glad that you find your way of going about vinyl hunting fulfilling :)
It’s fun, although she’s been less interested lately. Maybe in the spring.