JumpStart by Robb Armstrong for August 04, 2024

Don’t throw the past away

You might need it again someday!

Dreams can come true again—

When everything old is new again….

They still make boomboxes. They just don’t CALL them boomboxes (or ghetto blasters) anymore. Google PORTABLE STEREO to find them now. Some still use the boombox label, some don’t.

Vinyl?? I prefer Shellac!

I think most of them are second hand.

Old school, new school.

Vinyl Beach Boys, to be clear..!

Playing a 33 rpm at 78 rpm. . . Chipmonks forever

Vinyl is back and here to stay.

What? No Bluetooth!? Can’t use my ear buds?

People who whine about idiots using the speaker on their phones, need a short trip to the 80s, in a subway, with 20 boomboxes. I remember some of them were so big people carried them on their shoulders.

What’s a cd? Something that allows you to play music when you don’t have internet.

new hi-tech only has one good thing, the memory’s that you had with your old low tech, and they were the good old days

Burned my music collection to lossless digital files.

“What do you mean, you don’t still sell a fifteen-year-old product?! You’re supposed to have everything I want!”

My first boombox had built-n mics to record in stereo. It really made remarkably clean recordings. Sometimes consumer-grade electronics can surprise you.

Why not shellac?

After all, the Battlestar Galactica (the newer one, not that 70s schlock) survived the initial Cylon attack because its analog systems could nor be hacked

Walmart still sells CD boomboxes.

I still have audio cassettes and players. I’m still buying new CDs. I hate relying on the Internet. I love using the net, but want my own tangible, keepable copies too! Just because there are new ways doesn’t mean we should abandon the old ways too. Use them all . Out of curiosity, I just looked to see if they still made new piano roles for player pianos, and they do! YES!

That’s cute! And vinyl has made a strong comeback over the last 10 years or so!

i just recently unpacked my vinyl records in anticipation of returning to doing radio. i’ve rediscovered albums i’d forgot i had. Now, to get the turntable set up!

Jumped from CDs to Spotify.

I picked up my current CD player at Best Buy. I was going to browse through their CD collection…but they no longer had one. Pfui.