Antiquated Music Things Kids These Days Will Never Have to Deal With

By Craig Hlavaty Mon., Jan. 7 2013 at 11:00 AM

"How bout headphones fucking up your hair?"

-- Nathan Smith

"Hearing a song and not knowing what it is or how to find it..."

"Importing Japanese CDs (that costs $25) and buying deluxe packages to get the bonus tracks..."

"Listening to the radio and having to just live with whatever they feel like playing..."

"Telling somebody about a song and then not just being able to whip out your phone to play it for them."

-- Corey Dieterman

"Having to go to the music store in the mall to order an album that they didn't carry."

"Things going out of print? Not anymore. Yeah, you might not get the vinyl but you'll still be able to get the music off of it as soon as it ships."

-- Cory Garcia

"Reading album reviews. I don't understand why anyone would ever read an album review when you can just as easily listen to the entire album online in about nine seconds."

"Waiting for a particular music video to come on TV. Thinking about a video is almost always waaaaay better than the actual video."

-- Shea Serrano

"Ripping songs off of the radio via cassette tape."

-- Alexa Crenshaw

Ed. note: I think it is funny that Alexa used the term "ripping," which to me is a modern term used for people doing the same off of YouTube. Ha.

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pawlie73

Listening to entire albums instead of a few or one song.

dangellet

Having an all-time favorite album on different configurations as the years go by: vinyl LP, then 8 track, then cassette, then CD, then digital. And all the little "special bonus" things too, like the Best Buy bonus tracks version and those weird Spanish cassettes with a whole album on each side (i.e., Fleetwood Mac on side A, Rumours on side B).

dustin.kalman

What about CD Long Boxes... or CD's for that matter. Case Logic cassette tape suitcases.

Tooooomb

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I miss street teams. Maybe that was more prevalent in the punk scene but they were awesome. Basically, for the kids who don't remember, before Facebook event invites, a band would send you a street team kit that had flyers, posters, stickers and other stuff. It was then your job to make photocopies of the flyer and annoy every local business and leave a small stack of them at the front door, deface street signs and bathroom windows with stickers, and hand them out at similar shows in the weeks leading up to it. It was a pain in the ass to make copies of the flyers and cut them out but we did it because we loved the band!

craig.hlavaty moderator editortopcommenter

@Tooooomb I did that for the Deftones in high school!

alexacrenshaw

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*shakes cane*
What about this one: When an instrumental of Nelly's "Hot in Herre" on, say, a Nokia brick phone may have sounded more like an off-key version of "Jingle Bells" instead. Not so gangster.