Lex, your whole schtick is commodity fetishisation, it's just that your commodity is ululating women rather than CDs.
― Paint me blue and throw a blanket over my head (Scik Mouthy), Wednesday, 15 July 2009 18:01 (fourteen years ago) link
bye bye ululating women
― Mark G, Wednesday, 15 July 2009 18:41 (fourteen years ago) link
i think you're confusing "music taste" with "commodity fetishism" there nick
― lex pretend, Wednesday, 15 July 2009 19:14 (fourteen years ago) link
and "ululating women" with "skanky ass hoes"
― I'm a Matt...I'm a DC (M@tt He1ges0n), Wednesday, 15 July 2009 19:19 (fourteen years ago) link
ululating skanky ass hoes, for preference
― lex pretend, Wednesday, 15 July 2009 19:24 (fourteen years ago) link
im just waiting for when its Bye Bye Hard Drives.
― titchy (titchyschneiderMk2), Wednesday, 15 July 2009 19:26 (fourteen years ago) link
I'm just waiting for the day I can have a little chip in my head, with everything streaming to it.
At once.
― a tiny, faltering megaphone (grimly fiendish), Wednesday, 15 July 2009 19:28 (fourteen years ago) link
squeeze that spotify...
― Mark G, Wednesday, 15 July 2009 20:39 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― piscesx, Thursday, 16 July 2009 01:40 (fourteen years ago) link
no one is publishing anything worthwhile anymore, and libraries aren't going anywhere, so...
what??
― elan, Thursday, 16 July 2009 03:09 (fourteen years ago) link
in the future they'll have music pills! that you can eat! all of the 18th century will taste like cinnamon raisin bagels!
― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 16 July 2009 09:50 (fourteen years ago) link
Fucking hate cinnamon.
― Hacer Trand (Scik Mouthy), Thursday, 16 July 2009 09:51 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― Gavin in Leeds, Thursday, 16 July 2009 10:09 (fourteen years ago) link
Just yesterday we were mocking Teletext and now RIP big man.
― Desmond Decca Aitkenhead (Matt DC), Thursday, 16 July 2009 10:10 (fourteen years ago) link
The other annoying thing about CD singles was the lack of a decent spine, meaning finding them in your collection was an arse.
― Desmond Decca Aitkenhead (Matt DC), Thursday, 16 July 2009 10:11 (fourteen years ago) link
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
― Pissed Jenas (DJ Mencap), Thursday, 16 July 2009 10:16 (fourteen years ago) link
I miss floppy discs.
Especially the really big, 5" ones that were actually floppy.
― Violent In Design (Masonic Boom), Thursday, 16 July 2009 10:17 (fourteen years ago) link
I remember 7" ones, ooerfnarr-etc...
― Mark G, Thursday, 16 July 2009 10:18 (fourteen years ago) link
Never was a seven inch floppy. They dropped from eight inches to five and a quarter.
― Violent In Design (Masonic Boom), Thursday, 16 July 2009 10:21 (fourteen years ago) link
http://behance.vo.llnwd.net/profiles/59119/projects/164212/591191230982992.jpg
― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 16 July 2009 11:17 (fourteen years ago) link
I know the feeling, etx...
― Mark G, Thursday, 16 July 2009 11:21 (fourteen years ago) link
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?
― Akon/Family (Merdeyeux), Thursday, 16 July 2009 11:41 (fourteen years ago) link
i miss 3" cd singles. those seemed right. i still have some prince batdance one in a batshaped case somewhere.
― titchy (titchyschneiderMk2), Thursday, 16 July 2009 12:01 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― Mark G, Thursday, 16 July 2009 12:15 (fourteen years ago) link
Wait, thats what I thought this whole thread was about. Are people talking about regular sieze cds with 2-3 songs on?
― seagulls are assholes (Trayce), Thursday, 16 July 2009 23:03 (fourteen years ago) link