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dduane:

somecunttookmyurl:

somecunttookmyurl:

nostalgicfun:

What was your first source of portable music? Walkman? CD player with headphones? MP3 Player? iPod? Phone?\u00a0

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my fucking god these tags aged me 50 years

they\u2019re literally the size of a CD, hen. you can still buy them

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presumably anti skip technology has evolved since then and actually reliably works now (if you jolt a cd drive when it\u2019s playing the laser reading it will also jolt around and songs will skip - not useful when walking. anti skip technology is meant to stabilise so it doesn\u2019t happen. very rarely was this actually the fucking case)

you\u2019d carry around a little flip folder of CDs like this in your bag

often containing at least one mixtape cd you burned yourself, or that someone else had made you, with the tracklist written on it in sharpie


common from the late 90s - early/mid 00s when MP3 players and iPods started to take over

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Been there. Had these. \ud83d\ude04

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