The World Has Changed
Heather notes that today is the 25th anniversary of the compact disc, the technology that obsoleted my once impressive cassette collection.
I did not purchase my first CD until 1990. It was my sophomore year in college, and though I didn’t own a CD player, one of my roommates did.
The CD in question? Living Legends, a Fleshtones compilation issued by IRS Records. If memory serves, one of my roommates also purchased an IRS compilation that day. The name of the disc escapes me, but one of the tracks was Checking Out The Check Out Girl a song that to this very day is guaranteed to play in my head every time I’m going through a check out line. I’ll have to see if it is on iTunes, as it is a song worth inflicting on the rest of you.
I didn’t purchase my first CD or CD player until around 1990 either, how odd. I remember because we had only been married a year and it seemed like such a big deal. Hard to believe the technology is that old. Wow!
The IRS compilation you’re referring to is called “These People Are Nuts,” a CD I bought myself back in 1990 while I was in the navy, stationed in Diego Garcia. I still own the CD…it’s a great compilation that also includes R.E.M.’s “Superman,” The Police’s “Fall Out,” Lord of the New Church covering “Like a Virgin,” The English Beat, Concrete Blonde, Klark Kent (an early Stewart Copeland solo alter ego), the list goes on. Love that disc.
Yes, that’s it! That was an awesome disc.