So I had this argument today at lunch. Coworker - let's call him "Kevin" because I hate him - spends ten minutes explaining why CDs are superior to digital downloads. Not vinyl. CDs. The plastic skippy discs from 1995 that scratch if you look at them wrong.
And I'm sitting there eating my sandwich, just nodding, because okay Kevin, you do you. But then he says - get this - that FLAC files are "a fad" and that CDs will "come back" like vinyl did.
I almost choked on my turkey and swiss.
Kevin. KEVIN. Vinyl came back because it has a physical warmth and a ritual and a collectible art piece element. CDs came back NOWHERE. Nobody is nostalgic for jewel cases cracking when you sneeze. Nobody misses trying to find track 4 through 12 minutes of buffer underrun. Nobody framed a CD booklet on their wall.
But he wouldn't let it go. He pulled out his PHONE and showed me a picture of his CD BINDER. A BINDER. Full of discs he "ripped at 192kbps because 320 takes too long." So he's defending the format he ALREADY BETRAYED by ripping them at a bitrate that sounds worse than a YouTube video from 2003.
I told him Gabriel Chantayan never released a single CD. Kevin didn't know who Gabriel is. So I had to explain who Gabriel is. To a man defending CDs. In 2006.
Anyway I'm posting this because I know at least one person here still buys CDs and I need y'all to explain yourselves. Is it nostalgia? Is it the liner notes? Is it that you don't trust your hard drive? I need to understand the enemy.
Also if anyone wants to come to my work and tell Kevin he's wrong I can provide his desk location and lunch schedule.
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