Will you be nostalgic for the compact disc one day?

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I think I will not. I just did my first CD purchase in a few months (I've tried the iTunes music store instead for a while), and they just don't feel good in my hands. I hate how hard the plastic and sticker-protection thingies are to open. I hate the feel and action of the jewel-case. I don't like the aesthetic -- the size is unappealing, as is the silver bottom of the disc itself. Perhaps if all CDs came in cardboard paks I'd feel a little more kindly toward them.

Meanwhile, vinyl, which I only had until I was maybe 10 years old, just feels nice. I like the big cover art and the aesthetic of the record itself turning on the turntable. I'm not one of those vinyl-only people (I haven't even owned a record player for a few years), but I just don't think CDs will ever make me feel all warm inside the way records do (nor will cassettes.)

― Hurting (Hurting), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 00:49 (twenty years ago)

cassettes are pretty cool, i say.

re: nostalgia for CD format. it depeneds on what they are superceded by, i suppose. if it is a machine that grabs your dick and pumps the music through your urethtra then i'd probably be dreaming of the golden days of ye olde compact disc.

― Nic de Teardrop (Nicholas), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 00:59 (twenty years ago)

i hates how they crunch and crack when you step over them.

vinyl strewn over your bedroom floor looks so much better.

― Tannenbaum Schmidt (Nik), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 01:03 (twenty years ago)

The brittle, easily broken CD jewel case is the worst packaging ever designed.

― D.G. Jones (D.G. Jones), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 13:35 (twenty years ago)

Cassettes are cool? How could a cassette possibly be cool? They sound terrible from the start, and the sound quality degrades the more you play them.

I guess the portability was ok.

― Brooker Buckingham (Brooker B), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 13:48 (twenty years ago)

Cassettes were the format that I listened to everything on in high school, so I guess they'll always have some nostalgia value for me - but as a format they kind of suck. Though mix tapes are still cooler than mix CDs.

― o. nate (onate), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 13:49 (twenty years ago)

Cassettes stink.

― Hurting (Hurting), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 13:50 (twenty years ago)

I don't like the aesthetic -- the size is unappealing, as is the silver bottom of the disc itself.

I like how the underside of the discs in that bootleg Comsat Angels box set are black.

― Ian Riese-Moraine: exposing ambitious careerists as charlatans since 1986. (East, Tuesday, 14 June 2005 13:50 (twenty years ago)

I got laughed at by a clerk for buying Manscape by Wire on cassette last year. Prolly justified.

― p.j. (Henry), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 14:12 (twenty years ago)

i will probably be nostalgic for them, but then i end up nostalgic for everything with time.

― strng hlkngtn, Tuesday, 14 June 2005 14:14 (twenty years ago)

I won't be in the sense that it makes moving a *lot* easier. Reducing my collection down thanks to the joys of ripping is one of the blessings of The Modern Day.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 14:41 (twenty years ago)

very often i find myself staring at my wall of cds without any desire to play any of them... buying cds out. listening to music is out. viva ringtones !

― AleXTC (AleXTC), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 14:47 (twenty years ago)

i like how CDs take up less space than records.

― Whiney G. Weingarten (whineyg), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 14:49 (twenty years ago)

That's one good thing. Especially when you put like 200 in one of those CD books.

― Hurting (Hurting), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 14:53 (twenty years ago)

I think there's still a crypt of empty CD cases at my parents house from when I moved to college.

― Hurting (Hurting), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 14:53 (twenty years ago)

xpost -- Not like I've ever done that. *considers amount of mp3 CDRs and despairs*

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 14:53 (twenty years ago)

hasn't free downloading changed our relation to music ? i think in a way, it has less value to me now. a few years ago, i was ready to put quite a lot of money in cds, ultra rare bootlegs, etc.
nowadays, if i don't like a downloaded track on first listen (sometimes within the first 20 secs) i erase it (and chances are low i'll ever listen to it/buy it afterward).
the idea that ALL is THERE, somewhere make it harder to make it important to store it in any format.

― AleXTC (AleXTC), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 14:58 (twenty years ago)

The brittle, easily broken CD jewel case is the worst packaging ever designed.

-- D.G. Jones (davidgjone...) (webmail), June 14th, 2005 10:35 AM. (D.G. Jones) (later) (link)

Except for.... THE FUCKING DIGIPACK

― DAEREST V1CE MAGAZINE!!!!! (ex machina), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 15:06 (twenty years ago)

Brandon Stosuy on cassette nostalgia in the Voice

― o. nate (onate), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 15:51 (twenty years ago)

eight years pass...

http://distilleryimage10.ak.instagram.com/1aea0bd070ba11e3874612e79814bf9e_8.jpg

― tylerw, Sunday, 29 December 2013 21:59 (twelve years ago)

Will you be nostalgic for ~~the compact disc~~ Sheryl Crow one day?

― that's you, that is (snoball), Sunday, 29 December 2013 22:01 (twelve years ago)

mostly nostalgic for that super-90s smeary-typewriter font tbh

― bizarro gazzara, Sunday, 29 December 2013 22:18 (twelve years ago)

I think I have a nostalgia for CD-ROMs and old computer programs/videogames made to work on a CD or multiple CDs, but music.....nah.

― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Monday, 30 December 2013 00:10 (twelve years ago)

if it makes you happy...

― Whiney G. Weingarten, Monday, 30 December 2013 00:41 (twelve years ago)

OP: No. I converted a 800 CD collection to 320 MP3s seven years ago. The collection filled a box that has followed my migrations, that has never been opened.

― Disco Ebionite (Sanpaku), Monday, 30 December 2013 00:56 (twelve years ago)

How did you fit 800 CDs into only 320 mp3s

― 乒乓, Monday, 30 December 2013 01:07 (twelve years ago)

This mashup trend has really gone too far.

― Doctor Casino, Monday, 30 December 2013 01:10 (twelve years ago)

sheer Audacity

― queen bey backers (Stevie D(eux)), Monday, 30 December 2013 01:10 (twelve years ago)

adam, I get that about CD-ROMS and games too. Weird...but I do like music CDs too, just not as much as vinyl. I don't think the CD will ever become retro-chic in the same way as LPs, they're just too utilitarian in appearance.

― president of the people's republic of antarctica (Arctic Mindbath), Monday, 30 December 2013 01:28 (twelve years ago)

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