Tuesday, April 29, 2025
Time: 7:55 AM
Song: Sedona
Artist: Houndmouth
Mode of Consumption: Listening to a mixed CD on the way to work.
Link to song: https://open.spotify.com/track/2MQhTbX792AT6YyzwLz9dt?si=190e14ca8f9141d9
Whenever I drive our Ford F-150 to work, I pick some CDs out to listen to. Usually, I drive our Jeep, which doesn’t have a CD player, tape player or 8-track.
Instead, you’re expected to pay for Sirius or some other streaming service.
I plug my phone in most days and cycle about through about 3,500 songs. I could use Spotify, but then I have the occasional pauses when I lose signal and since I use the free version, I will suffer through the same few commercials over and over.
This morning I picked a CD case filled with burned mixes that range from mixes made a year or two ago to those made in the early 2000s when we were pirating songs from places like Napster.
There is something comforting about physical media. Clearly, I like it since I have about 500 vinyl records.
I like CDs and cassettes, too. There is nothing like putting a mix in that you made twenty-some years ago and remembering what track was going to play next. It’s even more rewarding when you are surprised with a tune you’ve forgotten you ever had.
I play these CDs including just regular albums by my favorite artists, and I am often transported to long car rides on family vacations or hanging out with friends, driving around the dark rural roads of Whiteside and Carroll Counties.
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