This! There’s something so personal about writing something by hand and mailing it off. A small symbol of love

CDs can rip to FLAC so easily and with excellent quality.

There’s some issues depending on when it was mastered, with CDs from the late 90’s/early 00’s falling victim to the Loudness Wars. But for modern pressings and really old stuff, it’s the highest digital quality you can get.

does a penchant for yachting help support a local record or thrift store who is likely drowning in 90’s easy listening discs

You should at least buy the discog of your fav artists outright and keep them around, and fill out the rest with thrift/record store wins. You don’t have to keep the thrifty ones, but you might discover some bangers through that.

The best ones live by the work desk

Ikea cube

The plastic is half the fun.
When I’m away from home: PlexAmp
When I’m working at home: an Xbox 360 HD DVD Player connected to my work laptop

But they once got paid $7.99

Luckily CDs are like $1 used, the second best time to start is now

Transitioning is Community, got it

This has been a feature of the core series for nearly 20 years wtf

Without the ads it would probably be better than pandemic era SNL but still bad

NO. NO. I DIDN’T NEED TO KNOW.

A lot of touching