Friday, May 18th, 2012
Rhian Farnworth reports on the death of the CD.
THE CD is dead, long live the iPod! With MP3 players and smartphones being a more convenient digital solution – and Vinyl still refusing to die for people who prefer something physical – the CD’s time is, alas, at an end. But what do you do with that painstakingly collected 10 years of Steps which you’ve long since ripped to you computer?
The enigma of the hour
Why not create an absolutely-not-in-any-way-gaudy piece of art? Like so many artists before you, um, you can mount them on paper and people will gaze in “awe” at your expressive genius. Who’s for a shiny, shiny, Snoop Doggy Dogg clock? A bit of glue, a trip to an electrical shop and 10 minutes later you’ll have your own clock in retro 2000 chic.
One for silver, two for gold, three for what precisely?
For those of a more commercial bent, there is always Music Magpie which has a service that lets you turn your unwanted CDs, DVDs and games into magical moolah. So, from sitting on the obsolete, you could now be sitting on veritable gold mine. Viva capitalism!
Bon Jovi at teatime
I’m pretty sure that Bon Jovi’s works were actually designed specifically for use as coasters and it is merely an accident of the manufacturing process that they make sounds when put in a CD player.
Charlie don’t use AOL7s
Anyone who was in school in the mid to late ‘90s will have a folk memory of diving for cover under a hail of incoming AOL7 CDs. In the right hands they are potentially lethal. If you are something of a survivalist, build a fort, stockpile, train and be ready for the apocalypse.
They’ll call you mad, but you’ll have the last laugh.
Rhian Farnworth is wowdewow CD recycling guru. Approach her stockade at your peril.
Should you cast your old CDs to the wind or follow the magpie back to its website? Your feedback very below in readers comments.
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