my review of CDs (SIGN http://chng.it/r29CygJNY5)

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    My review of this album isn't going to be clever or funny. It's going to be deadpan and honest like I usually am, though very self-consciously so and the smirkage that usually lurks beneath is my own private pleasure. I'm giving this 0.5 stars to express my hatred of CDs, and since I type 100+ words per minute it's inevitable I'm about to elaborate on this thought. For that matter, it can be extended to express my hatred of vinyl, cassettes, 8-tracks, minidiscs, and any other format for storing musical information besides the currently optimal one. I hate owning things. I hate the culture of collecting things. I hate the obsolete system of musical commerce. I'm completely in favor of the future paradigm of universal access, advanced metadata management, and donation-based commerce. Over a year ago I eliminated at least 95% of my possessions, including virtually all of my CDs (about 3 or 4 thousand), cassettes, and vinyl (only a few hundred because I never got into that other than picking up children's records, local gospel records from the 70s, etc from thrift stores--but I did own a copy of Polly Bradfield's solo violin album that gave me all kinds of happiness and I relished the Jack Rose solo albums on vinyl I'd purchased from him as a gesture of support and genuine appreciation for a (now dearly missed) friend/neighbor/scene-mate, which included all the associations of him explaining/ranting about his love for vinyl, right down the sounds and smells of opening a new gatefold). I also got rid of about a thousand books and only kept about a hundred that I will actually use in a meaningful way in the next few years, all of which I'd happily replace with PDFs if it was practical. Now my lifestyle is simple, elegant, focused, glorious, and, above all, portable/modular. I don't use paper (except index cards HPDA-style and the grandfather-clause book collection) and I don't have objects to keep track of besides what I'm actually using in a selective way on a daily basis. I live in a tropical island rural paradise and I could move anywhere in the world tomorrow at the drop of a hat with most of my essential possessions, including about 3 TB of music I have carefully archived on hard drives, which take up very very little space and allow me to enjoy music at a completely different level of interconnectedness, spontaneity and fluid integration with the other aspects of life. I have never enjoyed music as much as I do now that I've completely rejected the ownership/object/collector paradigms. (Foobar2000 gets a lot of the credit too.) All the bullshit cliches about looking at album art (hang a painting on your wall or take a walk in nature to enjoy flowers, birds, etc while listening to an mp3 player), holding something in your hand (try genitalia as a tactile alternative), listening as a ritual (everything you ever do in life can be treated as a fucking ritual), etc can be completely refuted. And 99% of the claims about sound quality for vinyl and CD are delusional placebo bullshit. And for that other 1%, is it really worth it? The rarely used, but now very feasible, upper levels of digital recording quality like 24/96, involving a computer for all stages of input and output, are easily superior to the best possible vinyl or CD. By the way, all gods and supernatural entities are fucking fictions from the miraculous human imagination, and astrology/horroscopes/clairvoyance/mystical-healing/etc is all a placebo effect generated by the miraculous human brain. People are generally incredibly fucking naive and stupid, and it's a situation that puts my whole worldview into an uncomfortable stalemate. CDs are incredibly obsolete at this point in time. I have many close friends whose livelihoods or hobbies are based on the old paradigms of vinyl and CD commerce, and my heart goes out to them and their life's work/passion; my fullest respect goes to the beautiful paths they've chosen; I would be concerned about offending them with these viewpoints, but I don't think any of them will read this review of the 1989 classic CD Laser Lens Cleaner release, so I feel safe ranting here. The internet provides valuable opportunities for people to be totally honest like this in a semi-anonymous way. I'm nicely hidden away from my real-life entanglements in the music world here on RYM and I'm grateful for that. (I just remembered that I actually used to run a small record label a few years ago and release handmade crafty CDRs and even collaborated on a vinyl LP release. Ouch. Youth passion misapplied.) Simple, honest communication and the pursuit of pleasure are priceless luxuries. If I had millions of dollars sitting around, I'd give it to those beloved friends so they could retire and we could all move on to greater joys of existence and the liberation of music and all other forms of social information. By the way, I still have an optical drive in my computer and I recently went to Walmart and bought a pack of blank CDRs to burn some mixes to listen to because I was in the unfortunate situation of driving a vehicle with a CD player and no auxiliary input jack for my mp3 player! I mainly just use a bicycle and don't own a car anymore, so that was quite a double-whammy. I know I'm weak and lame; I could've spent all the driving time doing Jaap Blonk style vocal improv or learning overtone singing instead of listening to CDs, but those songs by Black Sabbath, Shirley Collins, Sun City Girls, Iron Maiden, Slapp Happy, etc from my mixes were profound moments of musical ecstasy, so I have no regrets. Idealism is best applied 80% of the time. Also, I used to have hundreds of "failed burn" CDRs sitting around that I saved for some reason (maybe thinking they would serve some kind of art/craft/interior-decorating project one day), and I kinda wish I hadn't thrown them away because they would be PERFECT to string along in the fig trees here to ward off the birds via light reflection. It is so frustrating when a big and ripe fresh fig gets eaten by a bird before I can pick it.
     
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    I've done more Mod+ work than you back when I actually was a Mod+



    Not to mention the fact that you didn't even talk in the chats anyway. Since when did you actually help with appeals in banappeals chat?



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    So has many others



    Nobody has attempted to put you in your place, so I will.




    Yeah, maybe I will get punished for this and if I do, so be it. I've had enough of you, I really have.
     
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    You know what we call this in the real world?
     
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    that's it i'm getting you demoted
     
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    @hmj why are you cheating on me???!?!
    Okay, so you expect me to believe that you were the very best that your generation of Navy SEALs had to offer? I highly doubt that. If you were as good as you say you were, i don't think for a second that you would be browsing reddit. This is mostly a place for jobless neckbeards that still live with their parents, and nerdy high school kids that don't have any friends. It really isn't the place for highly-trained assassins to be hanging out in their spare time. Even if it was, something far worse than a troll being mean to you probably would have set you off a long time ago. What about the slew of gore and child pornography that gets posted here on a regular basis? Isn't that something that deserves a person being hunted down and made to regret their actions? Yeah, you're just not the reddit type. Sure, there's a wide variety of people that browse here, but you're far from the core demographic if you are who you say you are (which isn't the case). Even if it were true that you're an incredibly talented soldier, I think all the military discipline would prevent you from getting mad enough to murder some random idiot on the internet. I also doubt that even the best SEALs have a "secret network of spies across the USA". Why would all of the most expanisive Big Brother network in the world be willing to help a troubled PTSD-sufferer hunt down some random kid on the internet? That doesn't even make sense. If you're gonna try to scare somebody, make it more believable than "IM A SUPER SOLDIER HURR DURR". You might frighten a thirteen year old who doesn't know any better, but to must of us you just look like a kid with an anger problem and a very active imagination. Hopefully things will be easier for you when your puberty's over. Best of luck with that... kiddo
     
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    I have no gf this is not a joke anymore I seriously need a gf. I'm am super lonely and depressed I need sex and my family is starting to wonder what is wrong with me and why I can't maintain a relationship. I'm going to be 22 this year and still find it difficult to start a conversation with a woman. Part of the problem is that most women these days are thots, as you all know. I'm just scared that I will end up alone good night
     
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    Holy shit. My mom came into my room to bring me a plate of chicken nuggets and I literally screamed at her and hit the plate of chicken nuggets out of her hand. She started yelling and swearing at me and I slammed the door on her. I'm so distressed right now I don't know what to do. I didn't mean to do that to my mom but I'm literally in shock from the results tonight. I feel like I'm going to explode. Why the fucking fuck is he losing? This can't be happening. I'm having a fucking breakdown. I don't want to believe the world is so corrupt. I want a future to believe in. I want Bernie to be president and fix this broken country. I cannot fucking deal with this right now. It wasn't supposed to be like this, I thought he was polling well in New York???? This is so fucked.
     
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