I love them. So much. Why would I pay 99 cents for one song that is encoded to a fifth of CD quality when I can get an entire cd of CD-quality sound for 99 cents? Where is my artwork and lyrics? Where is the journey of an album? With the 99 cent, 256kbps AAC file?

I tried and tried. I was almost tricked by it all too. The progress that we've made. Progress is a good thing, right? Just download the songs you like. And then download more songs that you like. Here today, gone tomorrow. You won't even notice when it goes missing from your computer cause it's been lost in a pile of 256 kbps AAC files, unheard, for months anyway.

But a CD is there. For you. You can see it and touch it. The artwork reminds you. It reminds you of buying it. It reminds you of opening it and smelling that smell of plastic and chemical- soaked paper. So. I know maybe all that is bad for the earth and all, but Iplan to keep my CDs forever anyway. and I'll play them on my Sony CDP-555esd that was made in ’87, once I get it. But I only mention that cause they used to make things so that when they broke, you fixed it. I know. It's right crazy. Cause now, if it breaks, you buy a new one. You trash the old one and buy a new and better one. I can't even easily change the battery of my iPod. Cause most likely when the battery wears out, the latest greatest most needed iPod will be available. And since it costs about $100 to replace your iPod battery through Apple, you might as well just buy the latest greatest. Right?

So I love you 99 cent CD. You are everywhere now since everyone is dumping you in favour of the 256kbps AAC file.

So don't scrape the paint off of you house before you send those old CDs to the 99-cent CD store. It seems like some of you do that. Or something. How else a CD gets to look like that, I don't know. Just use the proper equipment to resurface your driveways. With a CD, you just put it in the player and then put it in the case. I don't even know how you would use a CD to pull up carpet. But people do it. It seems.

Yay. Special. Magic. Flowers. 99 cent CDs. —Glossy Format Hater