Discman C/D

Anyhow, I use my discman every night in bed, because I want to listen to music and my roommate wants to sleep, so putting on discman = classic solution to the problem. The only other time I ever use it is on long train rides, like for example the 7 day ride from NYC to Springfield, Mass (NB: This is a vast exagerration. It merely FEELS like 7 fucking days). The last time I was on the train there was this uber obnoxious family, obviously from Mass going to do touristy things in the city, who wouldn't stop shouting and carrying on. The mother actually hopped into the seat in front of me, leaned it back, and then GOT UP AND MOVED TO A DIFFERENT SEAT, TWO OVER. Without putting the leaned back seat up. I mean, wtf? So I try to politely tune out their endless, inane, obnoxious chatter by putting on my headphones. In the middle of DMX the bitch has the nerve to turn around and SHHHHH! me and asked me to put on a "nice" CD. Maybe it was the DMX, but I told her that someone with the nerve to flatten me with a seat they are not using should shut the fuck up about other people's music. That shut her up. Until her husband-thing came back and she quietly whined about how awful and ghetto New York girls were, while he attempted to ignore her by reading a newspaper.

Walkman, since I don't do compact discs. Big pockets, big bag. Pocket clip holds walkman for being placed in drawer at work. I like music as background when reading so not a problem. Also its a radio wlkman so my radio four antics can be kept up. Listening to sport too = classic.

I use these great little Sony earbuds which actually fit a certain way into the ear canal, forming a world-excluding bass-boosting seal. The MD walkman doesn't go that loud anyway, but I never attempt to use it on genuinely noisy transport (the Tube; *everyone* who uses a Walkman on the Northern Line and *can hear the music properly* will be clinically deaf by the age of 45*).

Cage's 3'44", eh? Must be the radio edit.

One one journey, someone (an old woman, as it happens) complained to the guard about the noise his walkman was making.

Who would think in 2007 buying a cd player would be so fucking hard! I may have to travel a few hours outside of the city to get one, and best buy has only offered sub-standard products.

why was nathalie being so mean to belgians in this thread

And by who, I mean someone trapped in 2002 or so.