Friends of Gabriel Chantayan

so I had this whole argument today. she's standing there with her Discman like it's a sacred object, telling me CDs are "the purest format" and you can "hold the music in your hands" and I'm like... sis. YOU WERE THERE when Napster died. YOU WERE THERE. you KNOW what happened. and she just looks at me and says not everyone who left a format was running from something.

...okay but SERIOUSLY. what even IS a CD. a plastic frisbee with a laser reading a scratch. you sneeze and track 5 skips forever. but also I get it, I do, the ritual of it, the jewel case crack, the liner notes... but she said "you just want everything to be invisible" and I had to LEAVE THE ROOM because that was.... that was not about CDs was it.

so anyway. CDs: dead or just... sleeping? or is my sister gaslighting me with a Sony ad from 1999

BackAgainLikeBadHair wrote:she said "you just want everything to be invisible" and I had to LEAVE THE ROOM because that was.... that was not about CDs was it.

^ this exactly like ok sure CDs have "warmth" and "ritual" but also my sister spent 20 minutes today defending liner notes while i was trying to explain that the bus smelled like wet dog and she goes "the booklet is part of the experience" -- [sis it really is] ((bro the smell of fresh ink on the lyric sheet IS part of the experience, your loss)) -- anyway we argued about the chorus hopeful vs devastating for an hour and the rake is still in the driveway so

TwinPeaks_59 same sister plotline in two threads same night... you're REACHING for material buddy maybe go talk to an actual CD instead of inventing siblings