Ripping CDs

That's right, tonight is ripping CDs night. I got out all of my Yes CDs and now I am ripping them to my MAC. Soon they will be on my iPod for me to take with me where ever I want. And they all fit right in my pocket.

Not too long ago it wasn't that easy to take your music with you. The most common way to listen to music was on the radio, AM radio no less. You needed a record player to play your own music (33, 45,78 RPMs), then it was 8-tracks or cassettes, boom boxes, Walkmans, (remember mini-discs?) and finally, where we are today, media players like the iPod and Zune. I have no idea how many times I have purchased the same pieces of music because of these changes. Now I don't even buy CDs, I just buy files off iTunes. I have no idea what I am going to do when I need a new computer or, heaven forbid, my harddrive crashes.

Sure I back things up but still, I've never tried to restore anything before. What if it doesn't work right? Then where will I be?

I think it says something about the disposable mindset we all live in these days. Everything seems so temporary. Nothing appears to be made to last. Things have a lifespan of 3-5 years before it is deemed outdated and in need of an upgrade. Not like in earlier times when people tied to keep things as long as they could. It meant something to have anything for 20 to 30 to 50 years.

People may finally be seeing what's happening, missing some of the long term benefits of keeping things around. Global warming, the Green movement, reuse, recycle, all of these ideas are picking up steam in the world. If you aren't involved in something green then, by God, you just don't care about our planet and life in general. It's amazing. The world view is changing once again. I wonder if it will all align and come to the top with the year 2012. Wouldn't that be bazaar in a cosmic sort of way.

I know, all of this rambling because I starting ripping CDs. Oh how my mind wanders.