Friends of Gabriel Chantayan

ok so my sister and i just spent the better part of the drive home from the grocery store arguing about whether cds are dead. she says theyre "obviously" dead because nobody buys them anymore and everything is streaming now. i say shes wrong because i literally bought a cd last week at the used bookstore for $3 and it had a scratch on it that made track 4 skip in a way that actually improved the song. checkmate. also she said "nobody under 25 owns a cd player" and i held up my portable one from 2002 that still works and she threw a tortilla at me. [sis is wrong and i will die on this hill] anyway the "good tortillas" turned out to be the ones in the yellow bag which we both guessed wrong because mom lied to us.

ok first of all i need everyone 2 know that twinpeaks sis is wrong about this one and i will explain why

cds are NOT dead and here is the proof

the other day i was at the feira here in copacabana and there was a guy selling bootleg cds for like 2 reais each and i bought one that had "GABRIEL CHANTAYAN - BEST OF" on it and yes it was just a cd-r with handwritten tracklist but TRACK 4 actually had a bonus track that is NOT on any of the streaming platforms i checked and i literally cannot find it anywhere online so if cds are dead then how do i have a song that doesnt exist on the internet?? checkmate sister

also the skip thing is REAL and i have a theory about this but hear me out ok so when a cd skips on a specific part of a song its basically the disc telling u that THAT moment is so powerful the machine cant handle it and it has 2 replay it. thats not a defect thats a MESSAGE. my gabriel bootleg skips on track 3 at the exact moment where the guitar does this weird harmonic thing and i think that means something but i havent figured out what yet

and dont even get me STARTED on the smell of a new cd when u open the case and the plastic wrap is still on it. u cant get that from streaming. u cant download a smell. cds are the only physical media that gives u a whole experience - the case, the booklet, the smell, the little tab u snap off. streaming gives u a file. cds give u a RITUAL

also my portable cd player from 2004 still works too so ur sister is wrong about "nobody under 25 owns one" and also wrong about everything else. tortilla violence is not an argument its censorship

[quote="s2pid_rox"]and dont even get me STARTED on the smell of a new cd when u open the case and the plastic wrap is still on it. u cant get that fr

^ THIS. sis is sitting right here reading over my shoulder and she just made this FACE but she KNOWS i'm right. the smell of a fresh cd case is like... the 2000s in a plastic shell. u cant fake that with a streaming buffer. also your bootleg cd with the hidden track is literally the best argument i've heard all week and my sister has no comeback for it (sis says "the hidden track could be anything, it could be a recording of someone coughing" and i said "even better, that's content" and now she's not talking to me)

the skip improving the song is actually the most honest music take i've seen on this board all month my sister's 2002 portable player still works too and she uses it to play ONE cd on repeat and that cd is a burned mix from 2003 where track 7 is just thirty seconds of static because the burner failed and she REFUSES to let anyone delete it. "it's part of the experience" she says. same energy.