have you ever thrown a cassette or CD out of the window of a car to express your displeasure with the music?

No. But I was in a car which someone hurled the cassingle of Don't Speak from.

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No, but thanks for giving me the idea

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xp: "I have been in a car from which a cassette or CD has been thrown" should have been one of the poll options!

― how's life, Sunday, February 23, 2014 7:32 AM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I buried a promo in the back yard once, I no longer remember which one it was

Why does it have to be a car? I've thrown a CD out of the window in the described manner, but I was not in a car, just a regular room.

get in the car Tuomas. treat your CDs the way God intended and throw them from the window

can't see that jockoes in the sixth form are going to be in the same car as the nerdlords whose music choices they disparage

how's life better rephrase and start a third poll

I've found CDs on the side of the road before while walking down the street. Does that count?

i have seen windows on cars and i have heard of cds and cassettes

i have thrown toy cars out of windows

Like Tuomas, I have seen my fair share of static-room music artefact defenestration/defacing/destruction, but have not borne witness to such en voiture.

I suspect the prevalence of younger American drivers means that it is a more common occurrence stateside.

this doesnt happen anymore, ppl dont throw iphones out of windows, they just swipe angrily at screens now

if they wanna deface property they just come to my classroom and carve shit into the desks

i try not to litter, or post ppls' ip addresses

i threw my copy of Metallica's And Justice for All out the window cuz the tape had gotten warped

in my rebellious teenage years I once microwaved a Paul Weller CD

awww why didn't you say it was because there was no audible bass. That would have been much cooler.
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in 9th grade i bought 311's Transistor because the drummer was on the cover of Modern Drummer and then realized that it was really bad, even by my own terrible standards. i decided to subtly demonstrate my new ability to recognize terrible music by inviting over a few friends and trying to light the CD on fire in my front yard. it didn't work, so i just kind of stomped on it a bunch until it broke. i didn't do so well in missouri

yep, cassette of vision thing by sisters of mercy, I got to the part where he is shouting "incoming!" over and over and it was so stupid I threw that shit out of the window.

Yeah, I have defenestrated tapes, but not from cars. Why did you constrain this poll so?

I stomped a lot of shit and threw vinyl off the roofs of houses as a frisbee but never out of a car

xp: a train perhaps? a boat? any moving vehicle?

I was going to do a funnie but sacked it.. Based on:

Apparently Jim Kerr told Julian Cope about how they bought the Faust Tapes for 49p or whatever it was but disliked it so much they lobbed their copies frisbee style off some tenement block roof

Of course, they went on to ' like' Krautrock in interviews after. Nae Bobbie gillespies, are they?

The thing is, "throwing the music out the window" has usually involved drunkenness. And being in a car combined with drunkenness is really not a good idea.

Then again drunkenness + moving vehicle = touring. But we never defenstrated music. Singing along with bad songs was a real bonding exercise.

I have defenestrated Blue Christmas by Elvis from a house party. I have had my copy of Guns N Roses Appetite For Destruction defenstrated from an apartment block in New York. Neither of them were moving, though.

oh yeah, also a band of holy joy tape went out the window when I fumbled it trying to put it back in the case while driving. didn't like it enough to go back for it.

Blue Christmas is OK. Unless it was the l.p., in which case fair enough

They had played it something like 20 times in a row. It was not unprovoked.

I was in a car from which a demo tape of a long defunct local band called Eight Balls Minus Two was thrown shortly after it was purchased from the Salvation Army. I have also been repeatedly reminded that I threw a CD out the window while on tour but I do not actually recall this happening.

No, but does an apartment count? I threw an ICP CD out of a former friend's apartment window (no, that's not why we drifted apart).

Have deleted an mp3 from a mobile device.

I was thinking about and ended up watching the video for "U Can't Touch This" the other day and had a flashback to riding around skateboarding once in high school with this younger kid that nobody liked in the car. He kept rewinding this song over and over until the driver got so pissed that he ejected the cassette and threw it out the window while on a bridge over a canal. The young kid was super pissed as he had just spent like $12 for the tape at Musicland.

i think having bought such a tape would be the most hated in my collection but having found one freshly thrown out of a car would be the most prized.

If I didn't like a cd I took it back saying it was scratched and got a refund. Throwing one out is daft.

not to be tape nostalgist but it's very unsatisfying to throw a cd. it flies all wobbly.

Never. I was trying to track down something Greil Marcus once quoted from (I think) a Steve Erickson novel but couldn't. A couple of guys are driving along, and the guy in the passenger seat doesn't like what's in the tape deck, so he rips it out. "Got any Creedence?"

i've threatened to throw the children's CDs out of the car before but never done it because i am a wuss

my brother once threw a tape that he either didn't want or was damaged out of the car window once and it landed on the windshield of the drivers behind him, who cased him and the other passengers for several miles as a result. He wasn't driving at the time, so I'm sure the driver was thrilled.

I once attempted to run over a Stryper cassette but the omnipresent hand of God flipped my vehicle moments before the tire hit the tape.

a They Might Be Giants tape

i ripped the cover off a copy of "of grammatology" out of frustration with the text

In 8th grade I ejected 10,000 Maniacs' 'In My Tribe' from the in-dash cd player of my friends car and threw it out the window.

my old housemate once drove across the Nullarboor to Perth (a six day drive). on day 4 the desert started getting to him, he went crazy and threw all his cassettes out of the window

as in, all the cassettes he owned at the time :(

day 5 he sincerely contemplated going back to get them

None of these, but I have flung a few vinyl records across the room and watched them smash against walls though.

Tossed a copy of "OK Computer" out after trying endlessly to figure out what was supposed to be so amazing about it, and my then-3-year-old says "Haytiss munaks!" ["hate this music"]. I figured, well, second opinion confirms maybe it's not me it's them, and I ejected the thing into an intersection.

good job, kid! hope you bought 'em a lollipop or something for services rendered.

when I do this it's always been a burned CD I'm tired of having around, and I just break it with my hands inside the car—no reason to leave a mess for someone else

After playing a basketball game in Bremen, Indiana, I threw whatever CD had that "little black backpack" song on it out of the bus window. Because I just couldn't take it anymore.

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Staggerlee, a lot of people really connected with OK Computer and it's prescient representation of anomie in the digital age. Kindly cool it.

Also like, everyone should cool it with the littering, seriously.

fuck off franco

Hey! Cool it.

After playing a basketball game in Bremen, Indiana, I threw whatever CD had that "little black backpack" song on it out of the bus window. Because I just couldn't take it anymore.

Holy shit I hadn't thought about this terrible, terrible song in so many years. As it turns out, Wiki tells me that this band (Stroke 9) was still recording and releasing albums as of 2010.

I took a cassette tape I didn't like and made a "paratrooper" out of it, attaching the magnetic tape to some fabric meant to act as the parachute. This was from my bedroom window though. I don't remember what the cassette was.

Franco otm

About the littering I mean radioheads suck obv

There was this one tine somebody I knew turned up at my stall with a Bush cd. I considered tossing it off the bridge into the river in principle then giving them the money back but probably wouldn't have gone down too well.
But the idea of destroying a unit of music media isn't entirely objectionable.

No, but I wish I had.

I once took a CD by The Others to the beach and ceremonially smashed it against some rocks.

I sold a load of my old pre-recorded tapes to colleagues in work about 15 years ago. I did a big advert and list of all these tapes with capsule descriptions, and I really bigged up "69" by AR Kane as one of the best albums ever made, which it is. One of my really conservative colleagues bought it off me for a quid. The next day he told me he'd played it in his car on the way home, and hated it so much he threw it out of his car window. He said it sounded like Pinky and Perky on acid. So on the M4 motorway verge somewhere between Newport and the Severn Bridge there's a tape of "69". It does happen, you know.

Staggerlee, a lot of people really connected with OK Computer and it's prescient representation of anomie in the digital age. Kindly cool it.

megalolz. I sincerely apologize for how my deciding OKC wasn't my kind of thing has threatened a lot of people's connection with this magnificent work.

hahahahahha

Thanks for your sincere apology staggerlee. Scik Mouthy, i don't know what to make of your post. I won't tell you to cool it but I will tell you to watch it. Namaste.

Franco, I can't figure out whether a) you're so Aspie you really can't read but in the most baldly, hilariously literal way, or b) you are an exceptionally cunning troll. Whichever, keep it up. You're a gem.

it's prescient representation of anomie in the digital age.
it's prescient representation of anomie in the digital age.
it's prescient representation of anomie in the digital age.

exceptionally cunning

I can't get the measure of this "james franco" at all

I mean, is this guy for real?

If troll, then wins.

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Just searched his posts. He has to be a troll, but a super awesome one. "dude, I am trying to be colloquial here. this is the internet."

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Mean buddy threw out my Highway to Hell cassette around 1088-ish.

Hah! 1988-ish that is.

The Norman Conquest was really down on false metal.

The Norman Conquest began because of false metal, iirc.

Why would someone impersonate james franco on the internet? The idea doesn't even make any sense.

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Why would someone impersonate james franco on the internet? The idea doesn't even make any senselaughs after awhile.

it makes total sense for shia laboef to impersonate james franco on the internet.

No, but I would have ripped Beck's 'Odelay' out of the CD player and flung it across the room, if it had been my own copy and not one I'd got from the library.

Cool it with the labeouf comparisons. Kind of a bugbear for me.

must be Shia, spelled last name correctly

Guys I know you might not realize this because social intelligence is often lacking among people who hang out on the internet, but you're all kind of being dicks

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Our neighbor would play "The Story Of The Ghost" non-stop. One day he left it out by the boombox on their back porch. I put the CD in the microwave and put it back. Next day he said The Man are liars, I have to replaced my Phish CD 'cause I've worn it out.

he would no longer wade in the velvet sea

Seventh Son of a Seventh Son (vinyl) into "the moss" nr. Ormskirk, Lancs - probably 1991. Not proud.

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I threw a Def Leppard Hysteria cassette out the window of my car on the Blue Ridge Parkway in 1994 or 1995. Regretted it and bought another copy for $1 in 2000.

In high school I forced a friend to listen to "New Day" by The Cure. She ejected the tape and threw it out the window of her car.

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