16 Reasons Why CDs Are The Worst
Ever try to listen to a Discman in the car?
1. You couldn’t get into a friend’s car without tripping over one of these.
And you always ran out of space and had to double up spaces in your own CD binder.
3. Let us solemnly remember the supreme ugliness of most home CD storage.
Especially freestanding CD racks. Shudder.
4. You had to buy a whole otherwise-terrible CD for that one song you loved on it.
5. And if you listened to a CD frequently enough, this was an inevitability.
AND NONE OF THE SO-CALLED SCRATCH SOLUTIONS EVER WORKED. F U, TOOTHPASTE/BANANAS/GUM, YOU ARE ALL A LIE.
6. Oh, and did you think your CD cases were immune to a similarly scratched-up fate?
WRONG AGAIN.
8. No matter how “skip-resistant” these claimed to be, they never, ever were.
9. And if your parents saw this on an album, well, you could kiss it goodbye.
WHY YOU GOTTA BE SUCH A TATTLETALE, STICKER? COME ON
10. Stores were so crazy about people stealing them that they made them impossible to open even when you bought it fair and square.
Like, CHILL with all the hard plastic nonsense.
11. AND THIS IMPENETRABLE STICKER WAS THE WORST.
It claimed the life of many a nail and accounted for 84% of CDs thrown across a room in frustration (the others were all late U2 albums).
12. But really, the actual most unfortunate thing about CDs is that you don’t see much of them anymore.
…was, let’s face it, far more satisfying than ripping this dinky little thing out of an envelope.
14. And that pawing through music stores for hours at a time is practically a thing of the past.
15. So while, yeah, it totally sucked to deal with this…
(Geddit? It’s a CD SKIPPING!)
16. I think that we can all admit that some part of us misses this.
LOVE YOU FOREVER, ALBUM ART.
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TempestuousRaven 2 months agoCompact Discs are awesome, I do agree those towers sucked and they didn’t let me organise properly however. I couldn’t let Hans Brimi sit next to My Dying Bride for obvious reasons unless it was in massive CD Binder… its packed to the delight of passengers. :) I guess this proves how lame I am once more.
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Djurcinovska 2 months agoAt least when u buy the cd you OWN it. Unlike paying almost the same price on iTunes and you don’t technically own it. Thanks Bruce Willis for reading those ridiculous terms and conditions for us.
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JimmyTheExploder 2 months agoI still buy CDs and vinyl on a very, if not frequent basis. Why would I want MP3 versions of something I can hold physically? And with proper care last for a very long time. Nothing like sitting down with a vinyl though.
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A.Leigh 2 months ago
One of my friends actually had an amazing anti-skip CD player. She brought it with her on the bus all the time, and even with the anti-skip feature turned off (which it usually was, because it killed the battery), it never ever skipped. She could drop it on the floor and it’d be perfectly fine. It was pretty awesome. And CDs don’t get scratched just from being used a lot. None of mine (DVDs and CD-ROMs included) have ever had more than a couple scratches, no matter how much I used them. I always hated renting movies or borrowing CDs from the library because no matter how new they were, they looked like that picture, meaning half the time they didn’t work right. Seriously, how does that even happen? Are you playing Frisbee with it? Handing it to a toddler to play with? If all you do is take it out of the case, put it in the CD player, and then put it back in the case, that doesn’t happen. Ever.
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benjaminc5 2 months agoThe reason why they were the worst is the price. They cost less then a buck to make,and were sold for between $9.99 and $19.99. The pricing was completely random. One store could sell the same album for more money then the other. The price really goes up when the album is an import. I don’t miss those days.
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JesseSaler 2 months agoI loved that entire Aqua CD and may or may not still listen to it on occasion.
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