CD Nostalgia: Ode To The CD

Fuck off Ash.
No one needs to jump through that many hoops just to hear yous boke your ring up.

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That album? Radiohead - Kid A.

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Year when cd inners cases/spines became predominantly translucent instead of shitty corrugated grey?

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2004

Artwork on BOTH sides of the back cover

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Those cardboard sleeves that seemed to be designed to scratch the CD slightly every time you took it out or put it back in.

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That sound of the CD spinning up after it’s been put in the player before the music begins.

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Putting PlayStation games in your CD player and being able to hear the audio tracks.

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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.

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Discmans being so big you couldn’t fit them in any pocket so literally walking around with it in your hand.

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Booklets that were slightly too thick so you just ripped the back page if you read it more than once.

Lyrics. Remember lyrics?

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The simultaneous rise in success of Discman and Nike Air is no coincidence :wink:

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Those “caution; laser” stickers on the player

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Easily ripped booklets which caught on the wee plastic semicircle when putting them back in.

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Discovering that CD Rewritables existed :heart_eyes:
Discovering that CR Rewritables don’t play in most CD players :expressionless:

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Christ CDs were shit

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‘"Buffer write failed’

Wasting a stack of CDrs as the rewriter was being a bastard.

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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.

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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

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Closing EVERY OTHER application, leaving the area to avoid footsteps vibrating the desk, and STILL it fails 1 in 6.

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