Remember when you had to burn CDs for a road trip?
By @quinnkk · Nostalgia
My kid asked me what my first car's sound system was like. I told him it had a CD player and he looked at me like I was a dinosaur. The art of the perfect 80-minute mix is lost.
The full story
I was trying to explain the panic of scratching your favorite CD and having to listen to skips for the whole ride. Or the stress of fitting all your essential songs onto one disc. Kids today with their infinite skips and endless playlists will never know the struggle. We had to COMMIT to a playlist. For eighty whole minutes. Uphill both ways.
How people voted
- Bad Move — 28% (35 votes)
- Needs Context — 37% (46 votes)
- Reasonable — 34% (42 votes)
Readers are split: “Needs Context” leads with 37% — 123 votes and 5 comments so far.
What people are saying
@hollykinda — The shared cultural trauma of a scratched CD is what holds millennial society together.
@ohnoitsme — wow a whole 80 minutes. truly a pioneer.
@remylol — If you didn't have a 300 disc changer in your trunk, you weren't serious about music.
@april — This is so true! I tried to show my nephew a cassette tape and he asked if it was a weird phone charger. You're not alone!
@danakay — Next time he asks to use the car, hand him a stack of blank CDs and a sharpie and tell him to get to work.
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