Perhaps I am GolfRewind's resident Luddite, but I have never purchased a CD. Don't get me wrong: I love music, but I hate what they charge for CDs, especially when I consider that I'll get tired of it long before it wears out. (Do they ever wear out?) At least with a cassette I've got a chance of burning it up around the time I'm getting tired of it, so I can feel as if I got my money's worth.
In fact, I rarely buy new cassettes because I'm almost sure to be bored with them after a period of intense listening. So what I do (go ahead and laugh; I don't mind!) is buy used cassettes. Over the weekend, I purchased The Beatles Anthology, a 2-cassette set, for only $3.98 (slightly more than 2 pounds, maybe?). And I am loving it! Lots of early stuff: studio outtakes, the Decca audition (they didn't get the contract), live performances from the early 1960s, interspersed comments by Brian Epstein, John Lennon. And more.
OK, so I'm showing my age. But geez they were a good little band! Lennon was my favorite; McCartney gets my respect as a real trooper; Harrison was never a guitar hero but he always did what was right for the song; and the ever-lovable Ringo... possibly the second luckiest man in rock-and-roll (right after Keith Richards).
OK, so it wasn't about a CD, but I take it you were really interested in the music we're listening to, not the format it comes in.
Dio-Eternal Live
Terry Clarke-Her latest disc
Rolling Stones-Fourty licks disc one
Dokken-Greatest Hits
Willie Nelson-Greatest hits
This is what I have in my disc changer in the truck. I like all types of music, old rock, hair metal, classics, country even have an nsync cd in there somewhere.
Bette Midler sings the Rosemary Clooney Songbook, or something like that. I listen to "Mambo Italiano" over and over--and I'm not even Italian! My old Chrysler has an incredible sound system, so that's where I listen to CDs most often.
Over the weekend, I purchased The Beatles Anthology, a 2-cassette set, for only $3.98 (slightly more than 2 pounds, maybe?). And I am loving it! Lots of early stuff: studio outtakes, the Decca audition (they didn't get the contract), live performances from the early 1960s, interspersed comments by Brian Epstein, John Lennon. And more.
OK, so I'm showing my age. But geez they were a good little band!
JimSomebody - yes the Beatles were certainly a good little band. I've got some old LP's that I rarely listen to anymore, but someday .....
I've been listeing to Allison Kraus "Now that I've Found You," some old Ray Charles CD's and cassettes, "Laurence Juber plays the Beatles," Hurricane Sam (honky tonk piano). On our now-monthly drives to Michigan my wife slips in some Celine Dion when I'm not looking. :)
I live in the Twin Cities metro area. I get my used cassettes at a used-book store. In its music section, they also sell used albums, used CDs, and even 8-tracks! Most of the cassettes cost $1.98 or $2.98, and for that price I'm willing to take a chance on things I might not otherwise buy. Problem is, most of the stuff is old. Last year at this time, I finally got turned on to the B-52's!
you are all gonna laugh but most of the time i listen to say Linkin Park, 3 Doors Down, Creed, etc.....but i have a thing for Fantasia Barino's voice from American Idol.....go ahead and bash but she has a great voice that i really enjoy, kinda sounds like Macy Grey and Tina Turner all in one.........OK, OK i will change it but not today!!!
you are all gonna laugh but most of the time i listen to say Linkin Park, 3 Doors Down, Creed, etc.....but i have a thing for Fantasia Barino's voice from American Idol.....go ahead and bash but she has a great voice that i really enjoy, kinda sounds like Macy Grey and Tina Turner all in one.........OK, OK i will change it but not today!!!
I was listening to LP's Hybrid Theory this morning. I'm a headbanger in heart.
July 20th, 2004, 11:48 PM
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