Old School

Call me old fashioned or old school or prehistoric or unwilling to change or your grandparents or whatever but I still like to buy CD's.

Don't get me wrong. I love the digital/MP3/iPod/age. I love the fact that I can get an electronic device smaller than your normal calculator and put on 1000+ songs for my listening enjoyment. It beats what I used to do. Walk around with a discman (its what I did at college, I couldn't afford an iPod) and stopping to replace CD's on occasion. I think it's great that we have the technology to do this.

But I still love CD's. I remember back in the old days (high school specifically) I used to love getting a new CD and popping it in my stereo to listen to its audio goodness while poring over the liner notes. If it contained lyrics? Even better. I'd learn the lyrics to my favorite songs. I had Columbia House (I mentioned that in a prior post) and would get a new CD a month and I used to look forward to when it would come in.

I do buy the occasional song off of iTunes. Just singles though if I'm not interested in the full album. I've only bought one complete album, Alone: The Home Recordings of Rivers Cuomo (as most of you know I'm a big Weezer fan). I was really looking forward to getting and just couldn't wait. If any of you have bought an album off iTune (which I assume most of you have) they also include the liner notes. Its just not the same though. You have to print them out. Its just on paper. Not in the nice glossy CD case sized stapled together booklet. It just felt wrong to be enjoying this new CD without the booklet to enjoy it by to read all of River's notes on his songs. Sure I could read them on my computer while I listened to it but it's just not the same effect.

It saddens me that all these record stores are going out of business but that's just the times. I get more out of sorting through CD's racks trying to find that diamond in the rough, something that catches my eye that tells me I have to get it or I haven't heard it in a long time, than just typing in the search bar on iTunes. On occasion I go to a record store (Rockaway records?) with my Father-in-Law and I love looking through the used CDs.

Like I said. I love the digital age. I love iTunes. I think its great. But call me old fashioned or old school or prehistoric or unwilling to change or your grandparents (I am 30) or whatever but I still like to buy CDs.