Word: discman
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...gorgeously tactile white-and-chrome gadget the size of a cigarette pack that is giving me a better-than-CD-quality rendition of Hey Jude. For a music junkie like me, listening to tunes at work is not unusual. Listening on a portable device is. If this were a Discman or a regular MP3 player, I would be fretting right now about how much battery power I was wasting, and I would certainly have to hunt for another album before I reached the end of this page. But this tiny beauty, known as an iPod, has put 12 hours...
...expression of my inner voice, and then to resent the fact that other people knew about this private meaning, and then to resent yet other people for not knowing about REM. To be so vain I probably thought the song was about me. To have walked around with my discman, wearing the fact that I was listening to the new Sonic Youth as a badge of pride, angling the CD player so that it caught people’s eyes. To be in the mosh pit of a Pearl Jam concert. (And yes I know all those references date...
Thought the Walkman and Discman were pretty cool in the '80s and '90s? Imagine walking the streets with every tune you own (and quite a few you borrowed) in your pocket, one button push away from total aural bliss...
...tell your child not to be upset because Grandma gives her a wink and an envelope. If it's invested in a 529 plan, when it's time for college, that envelope will be worth a lot more than a Discman...
...It’s in the Bag: CD Discman, highlighters, bottle of Dasani water, Ec problem set, automatic pencils, Lit and Arts sourcebook, spiral notebook, Abercrombie baseball...