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Old 04-05-2010, 18:17
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Are any of you, if you're a certain age, like me who used to love the charts and pop music before the age of downloading mp3's of your favourite songs and have LOADS of singles?

They seem to be pretty much worthless nowadays but I have loads from certain eras.

I don't have so much 7" vinyl, just two boxes but I have a fair few cassette singles and a daft amount of cd singles, mostly from around 1996-2000.

Am I alone?
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Old 04-05-2010, 18:34
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Before i had an Ipod , even before i had a cd player , i used to carry a bag full of tapes , about 30/40.

oh i still got a box of about 50 cd singles!!
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Old 04-05-2010, 20:08
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I was born in the era of vinyl. The first single I ever bought was Fireball by Deep Purple in about 1971 I think. The first album I got was Passion Play by Jethro Tull for the princely sum of £2.38. 1974ish? There was no HMVs or Virgin of course and no Amazon.co.uk too

Any records were usually bought in small shops some of which might have sold TVs, radios etc too. There were a few actual record shops around but not too many at the time. All of them though had a particular smell and feel to them. Happy days!

Years later in the 80s/90s I use to go to large record fairs. 100s of stalls selling vinyl from different eras and genres. Great atmosphere and very enjoyable looking for that rare record. I suppose the record fairs must still happen. I have not gone to one in years. Sadly today it is all too cold and clinical - well for me anyway.
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Old 04-05-2010, 20:14
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I used to have a lot of cassettes, they're probabley still around in the house somewhere in a carrier bag and I have some in boxes etc. I also have a lot of CD's about but I have some cases without CD's in and they're either lost or got thrown out cos they were damaged. I never looked after them properly.
My mom also has a huge collection of Vinyls from her teens/early 20's, (60's and 70's and maybe some 80's) they're mainly the small ones and a few big ones.
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Old 04-05-2010, 20:17
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i have a good 200 12" singles, mostly dance stuff 88-94 and still got hundreds of cassettes though theyre all in the wrong boxes
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Old 04-05-2010, 20:20
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yeah got shitloads of tapes the cases well scratched from been in the car years ago all still play well but own them on cd now the only portable mp3 player i own is my phone never wanted a proper mp3 player as of yet.

I never actually owned a cd until 1999.

Got 100s of singles and a few old albums i used to love reading the covers something nobody will do soon i imagine unless its a scan on a pc.
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Old 04-05-2010, 20:54
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Still have my MiniDisc player and still use it when my mp3 player dies
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Old 04-05-2010, 21:09
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i still have lots of CDs if i had money i would continue but i dont really have alot of money to spend on CDs even though they are clearly much better than MP3s. it makes me sad to see what a technologically advanced world we live in tbh sometimes
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Old 04-05-2010, 22:32
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I have so many cds. Id rather buy an album and get the info book etc, then download it. I just convert them to mp3 if i want to.
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Old 04-05-2010, 22:51
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I used to buy singles on tape before I got a CD player. This was back in the early 90s. I used to love sitting on the sofa with my cassette Walkman listening to shit pop

I then ventured into CD singles. Now it's very, very rare that I buy a single. I am an album kind of person...
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Old 04-05-2010, 23:56
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I remember when I got my first "walkman" for one of my birthdays (10 or 11th-I was still in juniors anyway). It was £40 cos I remember picking it out from the Argos . I thought it was brilliant . I still have it somewhere but not all the buttons work.
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Old 05-05-2010, 02:05
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Mine was blue
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Old 05-05-2010, 21:16
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I think we still have an old blue one and a white one somewhere, they were my dad's. Does anyone remember the crappy head phones you used to get with them? with the flimsy metal that pulled up and down to adjust them.
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Old 05-05-2010, 21:20
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Got loads of vinyl.I'm just amazed that people listen to such crap quality MP3's on all these up to date players.It's weird how we seem to be moving backwards in music.
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Old 05-05-2010, 21:40
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Years later in the 80s/90s I use to go to large record fairs. 100s of stalls selling vinyl from different eras and genres. Great atmosphere and very enjoyable looking for that rare record. I suppose the record fairs must still happen. I have not gone to one in years. Sadly today it is all too cold and clinical - well for me anyway.
There's still the Record Fairs at the Brighton Centre every few months. I went to one on March 21st, and found a rare Pet Shop Boys concert on CD for £6, another copy of which was sold on eBay for £50! The next one is on May 23 I think. Although you are probably too far away from Brighton!
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Old 05-05-2010, 21:45
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Got loads of vinyl.I'm just amazed that people listen to such crap quality MP3's on all these up to date players.It's weird how we seem to be moving backwards in music.
This is what the digital era has done to us.

We have HDTV, proper quality audio... but people quite happily accept low quality MP3s and streaming television on their computers which is poor quality. We sacrifice quality for convenience.

However, most people seemingly care little about quality in all definitions of the word... which is probably why the world of entertainment is full of cheap, already-been-done music, remakes of films and general tosh!
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Old 05-05-2010, 23:27
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I still have over a 1000 12" dance promos from the 80s/90s in the loft somewhere but the rest eg CD singles etc all went the local jumble sales etc.
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Old 05-05-2010, 23:41
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It's just a little niggle i have when people talk about vinyl, then cassettes, then CDs and now MP3s. You can still buy vinyl you know! All these chart artists you see, most of their stuff is on vinyl! CD singles are still available! There's nothing stopping you to keep buying these formats.
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