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[Driver Nate]

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Most of all I missed the moment when a piece of music transports you to a particular time and a place. You know the feeling. Three bars in and you can smell the car seat, see the friend’s silhouette in the sun, feel the frosty night, hear the traffic of a foreign city, shudder with relief that a break-up is over. I wanted these associations again.

Very nice and informative read from the folks at The Telegraph. I know that ever since I've owned an iPod I now have a tendency to immediately rip new purchases to iTunes as soon as I get home. I may listen to a new CD on the way home from the record store which is oftentimes the only time new purchases get listened to in their entirety. Of course, that is not true across the board but unfortunately, most of the time it is.

On a very similar note, Johnny Marr weighs the experience of listening to mp3's against that of listening to entire albums on vinyl in this clip that was recently posted on the Record Store Day website.

[wrong child- jr.]

I think i was in junior high when I started buying albums. I lived in a small town with no record store. There were two grocery stores that carried albums on cassettes. New albums ran $9.99, which was a lot for a 14-year-old. So you had to pick carefully. Every album I bought was played over-and over again for months. You became intimate with it.

I don't know the cause of it, maybe I don't have time or lack of responsibilities that a 14-year-old does, but the whole album bonding doesn't happen anymore. There are exceptions. Anything REM gets special treatment.

But it is kind of sad that my world is so sped up that I can't just listen to album after album.