The bad thing about iPods is that it completely removes CDs from your life. At least, it has for me. Partly, this means that if you forget to rip something, you pretty much forget it. The other day, I was looking at the line-up for the Crossroads Guitar Festival (Hi Dad! I know you're excited.) and noticed that Alison Krauss and Union Station are on the list. Five million years ago, I was a fan of their live CD. I used to make some of my colleagues in the music dept. crazy by putting it on every day. I liked to sing to it. But it never got ripped, and it never got onto my iPod, and I swear, I forgot about it until just the other day. I found it, and have been happily listening to it in the car every couple days.
But I hate carrying around CDs, especially in my car, because B.I. (before iPod), my car was a graveyard for CDs. I just got so careless and annoyed that they ended up stashed here and stashed there and they were breaking (in half! in quarters!) and they were getting scratched beyond use and it was a gigantic pain in the ass. On the other hand, it is sort of a pain in the ass to get the music all ripped. It's an even bigger pain in the ass in my house, because of the way our music is stored. We essentially combined two VERY LARGE music collections, and when S did it, all kinds of wacky-ass things happened. Buying music through iTunes is risky, because I know that I've lost music in the transfer process. And if I rip discs, S then has to somehow get them onto the hard drive that stores all our music, and update things and sheesh, I don't know how it works. All our music is on one hard drive, and getting that music onto my iPod through my computer seems to be a problem. That's all I know.
So things don't get ripped, or I have to wait for S to rip them, and essentially, what I'm saying is that there is old music missing. And I don't buy music anymore. I'm not saying I steal it, no. What I'm saying is that I really don't buy any music anymore. If S gets a new CD that he thinks I'll like, I try it out (sometimes; sometimes I just bitch and moan that I don't WANT new music and could he please leave me alone????) and sometimes I like it and it ends up on my iPod (usually he's the one who gets it there) and then I can listen to it or not, depending. But the days of me going to stores and buying CDs is over. Or it seems to be, anyway. S still buys CDs, so I guess I'll mostly be depending on him. It's fine. It doesn't bother me. Frankly, I'm more into audiobooks these days anyway.
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