Fuck off Ash.
No one needs to jump through that many hoops just to hear yous boke your ring up.
That album? Radiohead - Kid A.
Year when cd inners cases/spines became predominantly translucent instead of shitty corrugated grey?
2004
Artwork on BOTH sides of the back cover
Those cardboard sleeves that seemed to be designed to scratch the CD slightly every time you took it out or put it back in.
That sound of the CD spinning up after it’s been put in the player before the music begins.
Putting PlayStation games in your CD player and being able to hear the audio tracks.
All those adverts for Discmans saying that the anti-shock protection could take a fucking earthquake, then having to adopt a new softened walking style to stop the CD skipping as you went somewhere.
Discmans being so big you couldn’t fit them in any pocket so literally walking around with it in your hand.
Booklets that were slightly too thick so you just ripped the back page if you read it more than once.
Lyrics. Remember lyrics?
The simultaneous rise in success of Discman and Nike Air is no coincidence
Those “caution; laser” stickers on the player
Easily ripped booklets which caught on the wee plastic semicircle when putting them back in.
Discovering that CD Rewritables existed
Discovering that CR Rewritables don’t play in most CD players
Christ CDs were shit
‘"Buffer write failed’
Wasting a stack of CDrs as the rewriter was being a bastard.
First permanent marker I ever owned was in order to write on blank CDs, remember being very worried about their permanence and accidentally getting the ink on my clothes.
Remember buying a web domain, logging on to the ftp while working at fopp and just uploading every new release CD to it and then downloading them back to my pc once home
Closing EVERY OTHER application, leaving the area to avoid footsteps vibrating the desk, and STILL it fails 1 in 6.