Re: throw away society

I was slow to move from LPs to tapes and fortunately never got caught up
in 8 tracks. I was also a little slow moving on to CDs, but I like them
much better than tapes, allowing for random playing among several discs
and easy to skip a song you don't like. My investment has been in
audiobooks which are still most often on tape. When I bought a car in
1996, I asked them to take the CD player out and put in a tape player.
But when I bought my suzuki 2yrs ago, they refused to remove the CD
player. I can copy anything I have on tape to CD if I want, but that's a
hassle. And in recent years I have downloaded most of my audiobooks to a
memory card on a player. I found a gadget at Best Buy that channels any
player (cd, tape, MP3) through your car radio on a station number not
being used.

I remember as a kid my dad had a machine on which you could cut your own
vinyl. We'd sing as the ribbon of vinyl spiraled off the needle. Then
he'd play our record for us.

I don't mind the changes so long as they are improvements and so long as
you don't lose the ability to use materials in earlier formats.


Kitty
> Exactly!  I have many LPs (most of them well over 30 years old) and
> quite a few tapes, as well.  Don't even own a CD (music) as of yet
> and manage to survive quite well, thank you - and rather resent the
> fact that all this is "obsolete"...another ploy to make us buy new
> stuff IMO.  I mean, if you want the new, fine, but you shouldn't be
> forced to give up the old when it works fine but you can't fix the
> thing it works on as they don't exist anymore...aaarrrggghh!
> 
> Marge Talt, zone 7 Maryland
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> > From: Aplfgcnys@aol.com
> > 
> > In a message dated 11/20/2003 8:24:43 PM Eastern Standard Time, 
> > mtalt@clubhouse-designs.com writes:
> > 
> > > Annoys me no end that they are phasing out something that works
> > > perfectly well -
> > 
> > Like LPs. Even audio tapes are becoming obsolete and replaced by
> CDs.  I 
> > wanted to make some tapes for my new grandson from favorite old
> records, but my 
> > son tells me they don't even have a tape player any more - it's all
> CDs.  I 
> > guess it shows my age that I still have a record player - and even
> a few old 78s.  
> > I guess my large collection of LPs may be collectibles, and I was
> planning to 
> > make tapes of some of the favorites, but if everything has to be on
> CD 
> > nowadays, what's the use. Auralie
> > 
> >
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