Michael and I can sit around the dusty phonograph and listen to our
vinyl collections whilst the rest of the world downloads MP3s.
Translation, I too have never downloaded an MP3. I just started
buying CDs about 6 years ago. The only reason I did that was because
I lost a Pogues album in a bizarre kitchen accident and couldn't find
it on vinyl or tape . . . but that is another story.
Progress I say. People said the same things when tapes came out, and
when CDs came out. I think the romanticism lies when you discover
that song you never heard, the band, the lost take on some Miles
Davis song. . . that is where the romanticism is for me. The medium
is purely secondary to what it holds.
― Amber, Tuesday, 6 February 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link