A Brief History Of Listening.

victrola1986: You spin me around like a record.

1996: You spin me around like a CD-ROM.

2006: You burn me like a playlist.

2013: [content removed due to content violation]

2015: Your relationship will begin after this 30-second commercial.

2016: You spin me around like artisanal vinyl.

Feel free to fill in the gaps in the comments.

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  1. Gilly Maddison

    2013: You surround me like sound from my streaming device.

    Weird how vinyl is so popular again with all that technology in-between. My sons think I am totally old fashioned because I still have CDs. Just wait until they find all our old vinyl in the loft when we are gone!

    Love the video! Very Benny Hill-esque.

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    1. Christopher Waldrop (Post author)

      I’m hanging on to my CDs as long as I can. As someone pointed out to me, you can’t pass on your iTunes collection to your children or anyone else for that matter.
      That may be why vinyl remains so popular: it’s so low-tech. Try building your own CD player at home.
      And it’s funny to me that most people would consider “Benny Hill-esque” an insult…I grew up watching Benny Hill and still have a soft spot in my heart for him, but that’s another story.

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  2. Ann Koplow

    We hear you, Chris.

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    1. Christopher Waldrop (Post author)

      Thank you for continuing to listen.

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  3. Mila

    Hahahah perfection. Am guilty of artisanal vinyl. Naturally.

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    1. Christopher Waldrop (Post author)

      Artisanal vinyl is a guilty pleasure no one should be ashamed of.

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  4. mydangblog

    You eject me like an 8 track cartridge?

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    1. Christopher Waldrop (Post author)

      That just might be the worst insult possible. In fact comparing anything to an 8-track cartridge might be the worst insult possible.

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  5. Spoken Like A True Nut

    You spin me around like a #2 pencil in the reel hole of a cassette tape that you had to manually rewind because the goddamn tape player chewed it all to hell, AGAIN.

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    1. Christopher Waldrop (Post author)

      Oh good gravy, I’d forgotten tape players chewing up cassette tapes. Of course it was sometimes because I absolutely played the hell out of something and that was my player’s way of saying, “Shut up, shut up, SHUT UP! I can’t take that stupid ‘Ghostbusters’ song one more time!”
      Don’t judge me.
      I’ve already been judged by my tape player.

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