dunno whether any of you will find this particularly relevant on the subject but a mate of mine sent me this the other day and it amused me
Dear Sir,
It goes a little something like this..... When I burn discs to put
music onto my minidisc my sony stereo won't play them, presumably
because they are not sony discs and it is a compatibility issue. Who'd
of thought it? Sonic Stage doesn't even open now and even when did it
wasn't recognised by the computer and wouldn't let me load music into
it anyway therefore preventing me from transfering music direct from my
machine to minidisc. Another compatability issue? Perhaps. Who knows?
I don't really want an ipod so I thought fuck it, i'll get an old Sony
Walkman and play tapes but even ebay is fucking up on me now. Fuck
this, fuck sony, fuck everything. I'm gonna get me an ipod and a 9 to 5
job in London and comute the fuck up there and back for the next 30
fucking years listening to Oasis and James fucking Blunt and every
other inoffensive pop band that I can find in the Virgin Mega Store in
Bromley like every other fucking clone. I'll marry a girl a bit younger
than me who's slightly over weight, but she's sweet enough, and we'll
move to little house in Sevenoaks. We'll have our pretentious lower
middle class friends over for dinner parties where we'll discuss third
world debt and gobal warming and art and what a good job the next half
arsed Labour Prime Minister is doing even though we don't have a
fucking clue what we are talking about while listening to a cd of
classical music from adverts that my brother-in-law bought me last
Christmas.
When we feel it's the right time my wife will squeeze out a few
puppies. We'll have a girl and a boy. Money will be tight for a few
years, you know cos we have to make ends meet and stuff, but when the
kids are old enough my wife will get a job at the local Sainsbury's.
It's not very well paid but she enjoys it and it pays a few bills. Our
kids will go to a local school but not the independent one. We couldn't
afford that even if they were smart enough. Our daughter, although not
as bright as our son, works hard and has good grades. Her worse fear is
that she'll be 30 years old and working in a library because all
she has is a masters degree from a liberal arts college. Our son is
actually quite clever but he's not very academic and never fulfills his
true potential. But that's ok cos I can get him a job at my firm
because by now i've managed to work my way up to a middle management
position.
When the kids move into their own places after they come back form
University, myself and my wife who has since reduced her hours at
Sainsbury's can go back to our pseudo middle class suburbanite lives.
We will still only be in our early forties and we've scrimped and saved
and have a little nest egg which we can dip into every so often to go
on city breaks to Paris and Rome and Barcelona to rekindle our boring
married sex life and if i'm lucky I wont have a heart attack before
retirement age and we'll have a few years with the grandchildren.
One day over dinner our children who still live in the same town 5
miles from the family home in there own boring middle class worlds of
bills and school sports days and dinner parties and ipods will ask me
something. They'll say "dad, why did you never take us to see The
Arsenal? Or teach us about the dangers of drugs and unsafe sex so we
could rebel? Or play us Led Zeppelin or ACDC or NWA or encourage us to
see the world?" And do you know what i'll say? I'll say it's because
Sony fucking Sonic fucking Stage is a pile of shit. Even the minidisc
machines themselves will wipe entire discs at the drop of a hat and
there is an old saying, "if you cant beat em, join em"...... "Enough
was enough"...... " I got me an ipod and a 9 to 5 job in london
and......"
No! Wait a minute, I have a better idea. I'm gonna move to a little
house in Sevenoaks and invite all of my cocain addicted football
hooligan pals over to tear up the neighbourhood. Then i'm gonna plug my
Marshall VS265R amplifier into my Technics seperates system and turn it
up to 11 and put on Raw Power by The Stooges on cd. Fuck yeah man, a
cd. You remember them. Then i'm gonna play Gimme Danger so fucking loud
your ears will bleed. And do you know why? BECAUSE I HATE SONY SONIC
STAGE.
yours sincerely sam j. hunter esq
p.s i'm still gonna buy a Sony Bravia 42 inch LCD tv for my PS3 to play GTA 4 on though
quoted 52 lines Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2007 12:57:36 -0600
> Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2007 12:57:36 -0600
> From: jacob@gridface.com
> To: thorsten@highpointlowlife.com
> CC: idm@hyperreal.org
> Subject: Re: [idm] who still buys CDs
>
> thorsten sideb0ard wrote:
> > Personally, i buy a lot of CDs still, rip them at 320kbps mp3s on my
> > laptop and put the cover on my shelf. I like having the physical backup
> > of it, but i often wonder if thats a sign of my/our age, and realise
> > that i'm probably not representative of others. The ones which i do buy
> > tend to be small labels, and i usually buy direct from them - its more a
> > decision to support the label cos i like what they do, rather than not
> > being able to get the music from other places, which you can usually do
> > with a minimum amount of effort. The backup thing is good, but I think
> > that will become more of a moot point in the future, as online backups
> > and redundant system/disc setups become the norm. Quality is obviously
> > an issue, but i am on the side of a well ripped 320kbps mp3 being good
> > enough for my ears.
>
> I'm a bit late to this thread and am still catching up to replies, but my
> strategy is similar to Thorsten's. I arrived at it through quite a bit of
> trial and error.
>
> Even though I have difficulty keeping up with all of the promos I get, I
> still buy a ton of physical music. In order of preference from highest to
> lowest, I buy releases in these formats: CD, lossless download (flac/wav),
> vinyl. I go to extremes to track down obscure old tracks on compilations
> or CD singles if possible.
>
> I rip most CDs and some vinyl to Apple lossless and play the files on my
> iPod or over my Slim Devices Squeezebox:
> http://www.slimdevices.com/
>
> I've been grappling with how to store all of the CDs I've accumulated
> (probably around 1500 at this point). I'm thinking of investing in some
> heavy duty metal cabinets:
> http://www.can-am.ca/
>
> I just like having the physical artwork and backup around, but I am
> starting to feel some guilt about the waste of plastic, shipping energy
> and emissions, etc. so I may finally make the switch to preferring digital
> at some point. Lossy just isn't good enough for me, though.
>
> Cheers,
> Jacob
>
>
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