Bye bye physical singles

no one is publishing anything worthwhile anymore, and libraries aren't going anywhere, so...

hunting for cd singles from the early 90s is one of my fav. record store activities.

Not that you are wrong, but do you cheer on the death of the book industry in the same manner?

Well, I work in newspapers, so I'm well versed in the death of industries -- and in the suffering it causes to those who work in them. But yes, the point is exactly the same: it's the message, not the medium, that matters. And clinging to outdated media is ultimately fruitless.

(As an aside: anyone shed a tear for the demise of the floppy disk? No, didn't think so. Commodity fetishisation is frankly absurd.)

Commodity fetishisation is frankly absurd

^^needs reposting all over the internet tbh

Oh, it is absurd. But that doesn't mean that everyone will feel the same thing about commodities disappearing.

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Something touched me deep inside
The day CD singles died

Oh, it is absurd. But that doesn't mean that everyone will feel the same thing about commodities disappearing

Well, of course not! ILX the internet the world would be a substantially more boring place if we all agreed, etc. However: I do think some spectacular fucking bollocks is talked -- especially by bookish types -- that stands up to no real scrutiny at all.

Lex, your whole schtick is commodity fetishisation, it's just that your commodity is ululating women rather than CDs.

bye bye ululating women

i think you're confusing "music taste" with "commodity fetishism" there nick

and "ululating women" with "skanky ass hoes"

ululating skanky ass hoes, for preference

im just waiting for when its Bye Bye Hard Drives.

I'm just waiting for the day I can have a little chip in my head, with everything streaming to it.

At once.

squeeze that spotify...

yeah if anything there are more b sides, offcuts and experiments-on-record around now than ever before. see the *SEVENTEEN* track florence and the machine demos and works-in-progress album that was sent out to DJs and radio stations late last year. a sum total of 7 of these have made it out onto the album/deluxe album and singles so far.

no one is publishing anything worthwhile anymore, and libraries aren't going anywhere, so...

what??

in the future they'll have music pills! that you can eat! all of the 18th century will taste like cinnamon raisin bagels!

Fucking hate cinnamon.

Yeah I can't say I'm particularly saddened by this, the CD format never really seemed suited to singles and, yeah, they're pretty wasteful in that they use the same amount of plastic as an album-length disc. I must've bought 200 or so of the things over the years but I've pared my collection down to a handful now, mostly EPs or stuff I have a particular attachment to.

Just yesterday we were mocking Teletext and now RIP big man.

The other annoying thing about CD singles was the lack of a decent spine, meaning finding them in your collection was an arse.

Teletext should survive solely to report on the demise of other wildly outmoded forms of technology/media etc, kind of like a late-00s fuckedcompany.com

I miss floppy discs.

Especially the really big, 5" ones that were actually floppy.

I remember 7" ones, ooerfnarr-etc...

Never was a seven inch floppy. They dropped from eight inches to five and a quarter.

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I know the feeling, etx...

I'm sadder about the death of Teletext than I am this. What am I supposed to do in the morning before getting out of bed for breakfast now that I can't read video game reviews I don't care about followed by terrible music reviews?

i miss 3" cd singles. those seemed right. i still have some prince batdance one in a batshaped case somewhere.

though the best singles are obv 7"s, esp eps which play on 33.

I miss:

3" CD singles, they made sense.

DVD singles: The video, plus some offcut b-sides which may or may not have moving pictures. The best one being the "Books" Belle and Seb e.p.

I miss:

3" CD singles, they made sense.

Wait, thats what I thought this whole thread was about. Are people talking about regular sieze cds with 2-3 songs on?