Today, I listen to all my music as MP3s. It's usually on the computer or in one of my two personal MP3 players. In my three decades of life, this is my fourth format.
In the beginning, all my music was either on vinyl or cassette tapes. At some point in the 1980s I ditched vinyl for CDs and eventually, in the mid-to-late 90s, I ditched cassette tapes. In this decade, I went digital and said goodbye to CDs.
This entry is about vinyl. There was always a good record player in the house growing up, but I wasn't really allowed to mess with it. I remember going to Consumers Distributing and picking a mini-stereo out of the catologue that was to be my very own. This mini-stereo didn't just have a dual cassette deck and AM/FM radio, it was also a record player.
With a record player in my room, I started collecting 45s. I used to buy them at Sam the Record Man at Jane and Bloor. The pic below are two from my collection I saved, The Travelling Wilburys and George Harrison solo. I loved my 45 singles.
Downloading a 99 cent song from iTunes doesn't quite have the same charm.
