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Stuff you hate that young people like.

#264
TheBigO said:
Introduced, yes, but not all that common for some time after that. I'm 31 and I remember tapes still being really prevalent when I was a young kid. But by the mid to late 80's nobody bought cassettes outside of blank ones for making mix tapes.
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I'm admittedly fairly low on the trickle down scale but I didn't get my first CD player until '92 or '93. I'm only a little younger than you.

I still have half a dozen highlight albums from '89 - '92 (my musical coming of age period) in the armrest of my car.

I don't miss tape. The ability to instantly and repeatedly replay that one awesome song that you bought the album for made it a decisive victory. The sound quality was a secondary one at the time.
 
#269
Ben Lesser said:
Bah, fine with me. The more people who think that being educated is uncool, the sooner the universities will empty out, and it can go back to being the pretentious, ivory tower of academia that it used to be, with none of the idiots ruining classes and disrupting the environment. :ninja:
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sadly the days when a healthy percentage of the populace needed to be educated to keep the whole thing going have been technologied(sic) to death. now machines think for a much larger chunk of society than ever before..........dumbed down?.........you aint seen nothin yet.........i remember the first teenager i saw sucking on a pacifier..........geez

i think the colleges may go the other way......bff......bachelor of french fries...magna cum catsup/ketchup
 
#274
mike_v_s said:
I still have most of my tapes. There an outfit in Houston that still records on them. A friend mailed me 4 new releases a few weeks ago. Now I just need a tape deck.....

Mike
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I had one. A tape-to-tape, no less. I inherited my dad's awesome stereo system. I was going to record all of his 45 rpm records to tape, then take and have them digitized, so I can preserve the vinyl and not have to change a record every three minutes when I want to hear them. I also had his 5-disc cd changer, but it was broken. (It was a very early one.)

My husband threw away the working tape deck, which was useful, and kept the cd player, which was trash, and which we have several working ones.

GRRRRRRRRRRR!!!

Cherie
 
#275
bassybill said:
Actually, Cherie, that all seems like pretty sound advice to me. :p

(except the devil bit)
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My mother said to me, "Cherie, one day, you will have a daughter. She will be just like you, and I will have my revenge."

I have a daughter. She is ten, has a figure, likes a boy, and listens to music that I mostly loathe.

Thank God, she has excellent taste in clothes. Better than mine! LOL!

But I have to listen to those country pop girls, and Mermaid Melodies (Japanese girly-pop). Oi. It could be worse. It could be Britney. LOL!

What did I blow out my Dad's stereo on? Rush, "2112".

Cherie
 
#276
Fassa Albrecht said:
Nothing wrong with a bit of authentic hiss to add some nostalgia.
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I must say, cassettes never inspired nostalgia for me. Vinyl does, for sure. Cassettes have lots more hiss, and way less warmth of sound, than vinyl does.

I remember when cd's and cd players became widespread and affordable. I thanked God, then got rid of my Walkman and bought a cd player. :cool:

We only have one working tape player now. Its in my husband's truck. The rest are all dead. I'm thinking of getting some old, 80's particle-board cabinets out of the shed, placing the old tape decks artfully upon them, and growing morning glories over the whole thing. Best use for dead tape decks.

I've already done something similar with our dead, obsolete computers. Took the innards to the recycling place, made the outtards into planters. They have ivy in them.

Obsolete electronics are great for growing non-edible plants.

Cherie
 
#278
D Rokk said:
why cant we take this thread way too seriously and get it locked like the complaining about old people one?
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Dunno. They locked it? Man, I never even got in there.

Oh well. It doesn't really matter. Young people will soon be middle-aged, and complain about their kids *and* their parents. Just like their parents do now.

Circle of life and all that crap...

LOL!

Cherie ;)
 
#279
D Rokk said:
why cant we take this thread way too seriously and get it locked like the complaining about old people one?
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Any other 'oldie' feeling just a little smug about the implications of the the 'counter-thread' being locked?

[toothless old man voice]

Kids these days seem to be able to run just about anything right into the ground, don't they?

[/toothless old man voice]


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