Scott Muoio's 12 CDs of Christmas
Every year Scott does me the great service of telling me what music to listen to as I prepare to make and break my New Year resolutions:
Undependent Media: The 12 CDs of Christmas
Undependent Media: The 12 CDs of Christmas
Last year, following my list of The 12 CDs of Christmas 2007, I was challenged...regarding the validity of titling my yearly article The 12 CDs of Christmas. CDs...were a bastion of a former era now almost completely supplanted by mp3s. My brittle self-conscious ego shattered, I considered the obvious: was I merely a dinosaur hanging onto a term that no longer held merit in our latest technological age?
Not so easy for me, a dude in love with ‘80s music, checkerboard patterns, and googie architecture (look it up!). Certainly a la carte music purchasing is all the rage, but for better and worse, I still need the concept of “the album” to get me through the night.
Ignore for a moment all the aggravating negatives of the compact disc and consider the thing the CD still has going for it. Above all else, the CD remains the most modern piece of media we can hold in our hands, raise up to our friends and proclaim, “this is an album you’ve got to hear!” You can’t do that with mp3s, you can’t do that with Facebook, and you can’t do that with Youtube.
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