This is less of a blog post and more of a public service announcement. I may actually be shooting myself in the foot by posting about this by the sheer amount of CD deals I am going to miss out on in the charity shops ( because of the huge number of readers my blog pulls in ). Even so, I feel as though it is my duty as an English man-boy to save the humble CD from its streaming nemesis.
CD's actually used to be expensive, around the £10 mark for 11 songs from the latest and greatest mid-noughties boyband, about the same as the average streaming services cost a month. However, the same "Best Of Boyzone" CD that you bought in 2004 can be picked up in your local British Heart Foundation shop for 20p, what a bargain. If you can listen to one CD for a month, you're saving an average of £117.60 a year, this saving can be spent on candles for your mum (she deserves it). Even if you don't like your mum you can buy 50 CD's a month, and who listens to that many songs in a month on Spotify? Not I. I love the fact that I have 27 miscellaneous CD's in the boot of my car, ready for insertion any time I need them. I also love the fact that when I am cruising along the A14 on a Wednesday, I have to listen to all of the songs on the album, I force myself to. I feel as though the world has gone soft, no longer do people endure the pain of track 2, which is clearly a filler track made by the artist to beef out the CD. Instead you will just skip it on your magical tablet device. There is something quite analogue about the CD (even if its digital), when you're next in town gamble a 20p on a CD, put it in the car for the journey home and forget about your streaming service.
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