Chula Vista

Speaking of CDs, remember when they first came out they were packed in "long" boxes cause retailers thought they'd be too easy to steal otherwise?

The tree huggers went bat**** and soon after they came simply wrapped in cellophane.

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and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.”

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Long boxes were never really a thing with European CDs.
All the ones I had were American imports.

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FRED HALE SR.

The very first cd's I ever bought were Def Leppard Pyromania and Thompson Twins Into The Gap, I bought them at Licorice Pizza. Both came in the big boxes. Hey man Into the Gap was a good album. LOL

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I think the first long boxes I ever had were Judas Priest's Sin After Sin (After spending 6 years trying to find it on vinyl because I didn't own a CD player) and Alice Cooper's From The Inside.
Oh and Slayer's Reign in Blood because it wasn't released on CD in Britain until years after it originally came out.

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Black Francis

I remember having almost equivalent of my ipod capacity in 2 cd wallets with cds that looked like this:



I remember burning everything i could find on the net into blank cds, music, anime, dreamcast emulators etc.

But the old technology i miss the most is the VCR's
i had everything on Vhs tapes and i sorta used it as a primitive Tivo to record stuff on TV and stuff like that..

i actually tried buying one recently at wallmart and it was more expensive than the dvd players and they didn't even have them in stock!
All they had was the Vcr/dvd/blueray expensive crap that no one uses and is still way too overpriced.

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I remember when the first DVD-RW's came out.
The shop I worked at were selling them at £15 each.

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Zer0

I got one of these personal CD player thingys for my 12th birthday. It was designed to be jog-proof and to be used 'on the go'. Even by personal CD player standards it was ridiculously bulky. I was delighted to get it though as it meant not having to put up with cassettes getting destroyed on me.



My very first stereo was a Ferguson boombox like this. As a kid I thought it was badass.

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Chula Vista

A lot of this is kinda cracking me up. This was my first portable music when I was a kid and it only picked up AM.

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“The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well,
on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away
and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.”

Urban Hat€monger ?

Here's mine albeit a later model..

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DwnWthVwls

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