![]() ![]() But then, this week, two tweets from teens went viral, in which they professed to not get how CDs work or the point of CD singles. Like: what do I want a CD for? They’re yesterday’s beautiful memories, tomorrow’s scrap heap (and lord knows we need to save the earth). I’ve been over the end of that era for years. A few months later Apple discontinued the iPod Classic and a line was drawn in the sand: the era of CD singles (and ripping them) was done. We even said as much on this website in 2014, in an InVEstiGATIVE feature called ‘Is There Anything, at all, in the World, We Can Use CDs For?’. ![]() Oh, and CDs are dead, as they have been for years. Telephones can do anything, expensive shoes look like moon boots, robots can date. I’m pretty sure mine was the Spice Girls, if only because it’s the only CD single I still own, which I love, because they’re legends, and they made the St Pancras Hotel famous.īut this is the future now. Cool people might tell you they sunk their saved-up pennies on some Rolling Stone-approved legend, but more likely it would’ve been a mainstream pop act – the kind the asshole record store clerk in High Fidelity would sneer at. Perhaps – like your first pill or your first fuck or your first friend – you remember the CD you bought before any others, or maybe you deploy some creative license.
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