Diggin’ Through My Old Man’s Vinyl (or: Amazing Rhythm Aces):

I came about my musical addiction naturally. When I was a young-un my parents had an extensive vinyl collection. I can remember weekend trips from Plant City into Tampa to buy a new record and long nights with my parents and their friends sitting around listening to music. Once I finally reached and age where I could be trusted, my father let me sift through the albums and play DJ on some of those nights.

One of the albums they had was The Amazing Rhythm Aces album Too Stuffed To Jump, and as a kid I loved this album — at the time not so much for its content as its cover:

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Welcome to old age, CD: The Compact Disc turns 30


For humans, 30 isn’t too old — not even middle age is old these days. But for technology, any age measured in decades denotes something downright ancient. Enter the CD, first demonstrated on March 8, 1979.

To date, over 3.5 billion audio CD players have been sold along with 240 billion compact discs. Sales are in steep decline, however, as the age of physical delivery systems for music ends, with the MP3 now reigning king.

The CD hasn’t nearly the passionate fanbase of vinyl or even cassettes, and probably never will, but many music fans, when blowing out the candles on the CD, will continue to lament the demise of cover art and the idea of the album as a cohesive artistic statement.

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