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    Why, What Do You Use? An iPod? Pssh.

    Happy 30th Birthday, Compact Disc!

    The Most Ghetto Car Stereo Ever Makes Duct Taped Windows Seem Classy
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    Image of Jrsy Devil's Advocate® Jrsy Devil's Advocate®
    10/28/09

    In reply to Why, What Do You Use? An iPod? Pssh.
    Couldn't find a drive with a black faceplate to at least blend in with the dash a little better?? #carcdrom
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    Image of planetarian planetarian
    10/28/09

    @Jrsy Devil's Bright Idea®: One with an audio jack? not too likely, i feel. #carcdrom
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    10/28/09

    @planetarian: You mean like this one?

    [www.pacificgeek.com] #carcdrom
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    Image of walker2151 walker2151
    10/28/09

    In reply to Why, What Do You Use? An iPod? Pssh.
    Um, how do you switch tracks and tell it what to do? #carcdrom
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    Image of bzr bzr
    10/28/09

    @walker2151: You DON'T. You SIT THERE, and listen to the ENTIRE DAMN THING in ONE SITTING. That's right, you damn kids got it too spoiled these days, with your "next" button and your "fast forward" and whatnot. In my day, we had to switch to Side B on our Lenny Kravitz cassettes, dammit! When we were walking uphill 15 miles in the snow and... #carcdrom
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    Image of djdare djdare
    10/28/09

    @bzr: Do you remember how fantastic it was when a good song would line up with another good song on opposite sides of the cassette, so like you could listen to the song on Side A, flip the cassette (or auto reverse if you were ballin' cept we didn't say ballin' we said "phat" I think, I dunno, it was a long time ago, possibly "da bomb") but you'd flip that shit to Side B, and maybe have to rewind or fastforward just a little bit to hear the other good song on the album... yah, it was money. Cds changed things, but napster... wow how the times have changed. I used to have to listen to the same stupid cassette for like a month until I saved enough to buy another damn cassette... you kids these days. #carcdrom
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    Image of SeventhExile SeventhExile
    10/28/09

    In reply to Why, What Do You Use? An iPod? Pssh.
    that's actually pretty bad ass.. #carcdrom
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    Image of Jrsy Devil's Advocate® Jrsy Devil's Advocate®
    03/08/09

    In reply to Happy 30th Birthday, Compact Disc!
    Happy birthday audio coaster..
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    Image of frigg frigg
    03/08/09

    In reply to Happy 30th Birthday, Compact Disc!
    Interestingly, the physical spec of the CD has survived countless format revisions, and looks to stay that way going forward, blu-ray and beyond.
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    Image of OMG! Ponies! OMG! Ponies!
    03/08/09

    In reply to Happy 30th Birthday, Compact Disc!
    I still have my first CD: Aerosmith's Greatest Hits


    The CD is 18 years old and probably still plays. I say probably because for the about the past decade, I only take CDs out to rip them to my computer.


    As far as my first CD player, my Sony Discman died many many moons ago. And my Goldstar CD Changer (with 6 CD magazine) which got me through my teenage years still sits in my bedroom at my mother's house.


    Unused. Unloved. Unwanted. Obsolete.

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    03/09/09

    @OMG! Ponies!: My first CD was Debbie Gibson's first album, Out of the Blue. I actually still have it, with not a single scratch, although it has long since been ripped.
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    Image of Saad Baig Saad Baig
    03/08/09

    In reply to Happy 30th Birthday, Compact Disc!
    Wow, even my parents lasted longer :P
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    Image of BeautifulAgony BeautifulAgony
    03/09/09

    @Saad Baig: In what context, exactly, do you mean that?
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    Image of Julien321 Julien321
    03/08/09

    In reply to Happy 30th Birthday, Compact Disc!
    So we are celebrating the vapor ware anniversary? That's like celebrating your birthday on the day you parents decided they would have a child after they got married.
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    Image of BeautifulAgony BeautifulAgony
    03/08/09

    @Julien321: Celebrating the time they were invented. It wasn't vaporware (are you familiar with the term?) it was actually developed and working, just requiring people to jump onboard and get distribution.
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    Image of Julien321 Julien321
    03/09/09

    There was NO working Red Book CD 30 years ago. It was in development at this time 30 years ago. An anniversary is celebrated on the date of a products release to the public for sale. So CD will NOT be 30 years old until 2012.
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    Image of BeautifulAgony BeautifulAgony
    03/09/09

    @Julien321: Yes but we'll all be dead then. So, just shut up and celebrate, damn it.
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