Subj : Remember when..
To   : All
From : August Abolins
Date : Fri Feb 04 2005 06:57 pm

Hi All,
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From: "WLB  :>\)" <wmblowers@nohotmailspam.com>
Date: Fri, 4 Feb 2005 07:12:36 -0500
Newsgroups: Products.Nomad
Path: news.creative.com

Remember when your favorite tape would get wrapped around the capstan? 
Recording your favorite mix to tape, one VINYL record at a time?  Cutting 
and splicing?  Playing 45s at 33 or 78 and laughing like crazy?  Snaps, 
crackles, and pops?  And how many of us have taped pennies to the stylii of 
our old record players (hopefully when we were VERY young) so the record 
wouldn't skip?  Heaven help us, those were the days... but for recorded 
music, aren't these days just great?...  I was listening to my Zen 2.0 the 
other day, cueing up songs as they randomly popped into my head while I was 
listening to others.  And I was at work on break, so for that to happen in 
the olden world I'd have had to had with me my 600+ CDs {tapes, records, or 
whatever, and something to play them on, et. al.}... instead of just a 
single, small, rectangular box filled with miracle technology, and a set of 
earphones.

Which is why I'm hoping against hope that this whole thing doesn't migrate 
to the point where the Big Bogeymen don't try to make it where our MP3s, 
etc., don't play anymore, and they turn everything into 
you-pay-everytime-you-play-it subscription BS crap.  They'd love that, 
wouldn't they...THAT would be "the day the music died"...

WLB  :>) 

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d(-_-)b  ..August

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