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The Compact Disc is 40

Friday is music. With a playlist. Today some reminscing about the CD...

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Simon Sweetman
Aug 25, 2022
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Recently, the compact disc turned 40. Such birthdays don’t matter anymore. Tape recorders are 80. And the iPod was recently 20 and maybe a CD is actually more likely in a house now than an iPod, if anything. But a tape-player might be likelier still. And every man and his beard oil is there to tell you that it all sounds warmer on vinyl.

None of it means…

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