Mean opinion article: CDs are useless junk
Anybody who has CDs still is driving a car that is unsafe and you should never get in it
Anybody who has CDs still is driving a car that is unsafe and you should never get a ride from them. A modern car with modern safety features has Bluetooth. Point blank. So there goes the only valid reason to even have them around.
CDs died and vinyl didn’t because CDs were a shit step from analog to digital that prioritized profit margin over quality or experience. Imagine paying 20 dollars for 128kbps. That’s like streaming a movie in 480p. Imagine going out of your way, skirting both convenience in digital and the ritual of vinyl for a tiny shit disc with a washed out little print in the case. How cucked for the market are you that you’re buying a used CD, a situation where nobody involved with the making or distribution of the work makes any money, instead of just, I don’t know, running Ublock Origin and leaving your laptop open on your desk on the Youtube of it.
I’ll give you the CD’s tactile nature; swapping discs in a moving car is probably safer than unlocking your phone and typing “Eyehateg-” or “Miss Madeli-” into a smartphone search bar. And CDs are pretty easy to get nowadays. They’re often free. If you’re wanting for space, but don’t actually listen to your records, I imagine it’s still novel to collect them. I’ve got a couple cassettes for that reason. I gave my dad Freddie Gibbs/Alchemist “Pinata.”
Vinyl is sicker though. Vinyl is a completely obsolete format. CDs have digital files on them; the process through which you listen to one is tangentially related to the process of listening to pretty much any music. Right? CD player reads a disk with a laser, while a hard drive is read with a laser, and a solid-state or flash drive reads… semi-conductor cells?