All those squeaky little ones and zeroes
The CD turned 25 yesterday. (via Scott Andrew)
As everyone else has turned this into an occasion for nostalgia, so shall I…
I bought my first 2 CDs ever during my family’s last few months living in Taiwan, in the summer of 1988. The CDs were the albums “Window” and “Pure White” (loosely translated) by one of my favorite Taiwanese pop singers, the ridiculously-hard-to-research-on-the-internet Yang Lin. I didn’t own a CD player, but I knew that, for one, we’d most likely be buying one in the near future, and I wasn’t going to be able to find her music once we moved back to America.
I still have both discs in my collection — I’ll have to pull them out in honor of the format’s birthday…
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I wonder how many people bought their first CD without having a CD player on which to play it. I bought the “Die Hard 2″ soundtrack (I was a movie nut at 15) around November of 1990 with the hopes of getting a CD player that Christmas. My grandfather already had one, so I played the CD at my grandparents’ house that Thanksgiving, I think. My first thought when I clandestinely tested out my brother’s roommate’s CD player that October was “Wait a minute, you don’t have to fast-forward to the next song?!” Wow …
I also bought my first DVD before I had a DVD player — the pilot episode of “Moonlighting.”