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Youngsters these days.

My 24 year old grandson finished his tour in the service recently and has been staying with us for the past several months. He got himself a good job, to help out and take care of himself, while deciding what to do in the future - back to school, etc.
After he got a few good pay checks, I joking suggested he buy his Pa a new CD player. If looks could kill. "Why would you want a new CD player?" He asked. I told him "just to upgrade the one I have". "No one buys CD players anymore" he exclaimed. "Then what's your Idea of fine Audio, a WalkMan?" I asked. "WOW! There's not even any such thing as a WalkMan any more" he said. To which I replied, "Ya there is, we have a guy on our forum who swears by em". He just rolled his eyes and said "No - Streaming! Using an iPhone or iPad you can get a streaming package and get all the music you want". "Why would I want to do That?" I asked "I have hundreds of great LPs and CDs, that I'm perfectly happy with." To that he replied "OK Boomer".  I guess that meant he knew I was right.
Why is it that youngsters just don't understand the love that some of us old folks have for our old LPs and CDs and we  have no interest in paying for another monthly service, to listen to all the music we already have?
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LP’s,  CD’s,
all I use, have a good collection, many of which I still have,not heard from the 80-90’s.


 Most of my records, I recorded to my computer, cleaned up,a bit, added bass, mid and treble, recorded to taiyo Yuden cdrs’ for playback,
I love the pops, crackles, and ticks from the LP to cd recording process!!!!
  The tone and sound is analogue, played t(rough my stereo from the CD player is great, they sound like records, and I love it!!

 Have %80 of my CDs and LP’s on cd now.
 Have maybe 500 cds not on iTunes yet, my iTunes is over 90K+ songs. More than I’ll ever listen too.

 When listening, I use my CD player or turntable.
streaming is not for me.,... I’ll use my iPod hooked into stereo when low volume and background music is needed.
otherwise it’s CD and LP.

 As,mentioned here, it’s the,physical product I want/collect.
 I’ve bought maybe 2 albums and 8-9 single songs via iTunes ,I don’t like buying air,,so if I can buy the actual cd or LP, I will.
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