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Good morning PAY-TRONS! We're putting together a fresh podcast episode– filling in for Ryan today is the amazing Ming Doyle! This episode's topic is our memories of growing up with musical media: CDs, file sharing, mixtapes.

Do you have any biting questions for us elder millennials about music appreciation back in the day?

Or if you can't think of a question: do you have any fun, interesting, or embarrassing anecdotes or artifacts of your own?

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Nathaniel Rohr

Kevin, can you detail your path to becoming a big Bruce Springsteen fan?

Joanna C

Was there a specific moment when you realised that time was up for physical music media (at least in the mainstream)? What sparked that realisation?

gaits

I know that a lot of files on LimeWire, Napster, and the like were mislabeled, do you have any stand-out memories of a file or song not quite being the same as what was promised? (Also I just found out that LimeWire has apparently been revived as a “music-based NFT platform,” strange.)

BriGog

Who is the defining band of our generation? When you think of the biggest acts these days it seems "artists" are the majority, where "bands" are fading away, at least in popularity. Do you agree? What band from your youth would you love to see do a reunion tour?

BriGog

Would you download a car?

Sam Ballard

Do you think physical media will have a come-back, due to their high energy cost, as well as the price of multiple streaming services?

Sam Ballard

I made a mixtape CD one time for a love interest filled with tracks from the band HIM, and narrowly avoided gifting a personal mixtape of weird al which I ripped from limewire.

Ian T. McFarland

What band have you been most embarrassed to admit to liking when you were a teenager?

Rosemary !

What were some of the first songs you enjoyed enough to burn to CD for easy repeat listening, and why?

Damonscomputer

Have you ever had a strange concert experience?

Damonscomputer

What side of the battle of Britpop were you on, if at all? (Blur vs. Oasis) and what’s your opinion on it today?

David Dunton

What is the best Star Wars movie?

Aubrey Seaton

Did you have any big childhood opinions on the differences between formats? For me it was being disappointed when CDs supplanted tapes for audiobooks, since tapes were just so much easier to pause. Any time I paused a book on CD I would write timestamps in a journal and it made me so annoyed.

Frink Zippi

two music format anecdotes: my first car had a CD player with no bluetooth or aux input, so i loaded up a re-writable CD with dozens of mp3s...and this is how i learned both that "data discs" don't work on CD players and that audio CDs have a hard cap on 74 minutes regardless of audio quality. painful realization that i had to pile up CDs for a long commute to college songs being mis-titled and mis-attributed were (are?) a regular problem in online music sharing, even outside of P2P. i got in a huge argument with some high school classmates who swore that bob marley sang "don't worry be happy" and found a youtube video that proved them right. still burns me up that i lost that argument :(

Diana

[not apparent from the spelling, but my name sounds like cust-y] re burning albums and mixtapes: there was always this weird phenomenon of some people would give you something on a CD-R (one burn and done) and others would give you a CD-RW(many burns) of music. which always made me laugh. copying an album on CD-R was like "sure okay" vs a mix tape which is like "wow they made this permanent thing for me" CD-R felt like both "this person is confident in this mix/album" and also "Im fucked it it's bad"/"got a new coaster" the people that gave me stuff on CD-RW felt like "guess if its awful I can burn smt new onto this" what were y'all experiences with those formats?