Re: throw away society

I, too, listen to audiotapes...have a little walkman that I keep in a fanny
pack and listen to tapes while gardening and doing housework.  I obtain my
tapes from my library...a wonderful collection.  However, I am noticing
that they are beginning to get many of the newer audio books on CD.  I may
have to add a portable CD player.

Bonnie Zone 6+ ETN




> [Original Message]
> From: <kmrsy@comcast.net>
> To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
> Date: 11/21/2003 7:00:04 AM
> Subject: Re: [CHAT] 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
> > mtalt@hort.net
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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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