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Listening to Music
The way we listen to and consume music has changed
a lot over the years. The compact cassette was introduced in 1962, a
year before I was born. But it would be a long time before my music made
it onto such a portable format. As a kid, I grew up listening to music
on 7-inch and 12-inch vinyl records.
My older sister had a beige mono record player with a lid and she’d let
me listen to some of her records if she felt in a generous mood.
Eventually, she upgraded to a two-speaker stereo system and I got her
old mono record player. I loved the way I could stack the single records
on top of one another so that they would drop down and play one at a
time.
Tape cassettes were available in my early teens, but I mainly used the
blank ones to record songs from the radio. I had a tape recorder with a
built-in microphone and I’d put it up close to a radio when my favourite
pop songs came on. This was early music piracy and the trick was to
press the stop button before the radio DJ started talking over the
music. I got quite good at it.
Digital compact discs, CDs, came out in 1983 and the enhanced quality
was very noticeable. I held onto my vinyl collection for years after
that, while at the same time building up a collection of music CDs. It
was such a relief to be able to play music in the car without the stereo
eating up the cassette tape.
Minidisc players hit the market in 1992, but by this time I wasn’t
listening to so much music. The digital filesharing of MP3s with Napster
and other web sites didn’t really grab my attention.
Sadly, I no longer have my vinyl records or my cassettes, but I play CDs
from time to time and, although music is, unfortunately, not such a big
part of my life as it once was, I do still listen to my old rock
favourites from time to time.
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