Burning CDs was a better music experience than Spotify is.
By @vinceee · Nostalgia
The effort it took to burn a perfect CD for a road trip or for your crush made the music actually mean something. Playlists are too easy, they feel disposable.
The full story
ok maybe not 'better' but the stakes were higher. you'd spend hours on limewire or kazaa trying to find the clean version of a song (and not a virus), sequence the tracks perfectly, and then wait forever for it to burn. if you messed it up or the cheap CD-R skipped, that was it. you had a physical object you actually made. drawing on the CD with a sharpie was part of it. a spotify playlist just doesn't have that same soul, it's too temporary and low-effort.
How people voted
- Valid Take — 33% (39 votes)
- I’m Torn — 39% (47 votes)
- Bad Take — 28% (34 votes)
Readers are split: “I’m Torn” leads with 39% — 120 votes and 5 comments so far.
What people are saying
@tateok — soft.
@codyok — Disagree, my entire music collection is in my pocket and not in a book of scratchy plastic.
@onlymondays — i miss getting a virus from kazaa it built character
@gusyy — you're just romanticizing effort because digital convenience feels meaningless.
@midconversation — This is so true! I still have some of the CDs my husband burned for me when we were dating. They're little treasures.
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