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?
jhills

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jhills, take that whippersnapper behind the woodshed. Afterward, tell him, "now clean those records"!
My post: " ***  need's to be taken behind the woodshed" was removed??? Is plain-ol' fun now being sensored?
glubson, Yea, I do that too. Sometimes we just remember the parts that stand-out. Although your mind went beyond ... 😳
 Now that make's me think that of all the removed posts I see, most probably were Goeff's. He'd be up to like 40,000 or more... Oh' the humanity of it all!!!!! 
Your assumption is wrong. If you use your bifocals you'd see that there are only three asterisks for the withheld' name (of whom I alway's enjoy the texts of). I won't suggest a whoopin' for you, as we see them words ain't tolerated aroun' here, boy!!!
Back on topic ... Jim, I'm with you on the software. I fell in LOVE with records while young ( besides tape) that's what there was! When CDs arrived, B&O came out with a player for $1000. I said I'll  NEVER get CDs!! That is the only time in my life I went back on a " I'll never". I'm in the eastern tri-state area and even still enjoy NYC FM jazz and classical. I feel very safe in saying I'LL NEVER STREAM!!! HA
Jim, Now your grandson will say "see gramps, I told you so" and roll his eyes again!!! Then you can tell him "that so-called Bootcamp you went through didn't do it's job"!!! "now pass me that darn remote so I can do some streaming, boy"!! HA
My Dad would let me listen to top-40 station in the car, (I even thought many songs were lame) Example: Silence Is Golden by Tremeloes would come on, he'd exclaim: "then why don't they shut up"? Many don't appreciate the younger generation's music. I can understand that.