I went through 2 or 3 walkmen, 3 or 4 discmen, and now have an old iPod nano (which I got for free because someone found it and had no use for it :lol: ).
I remember having a few blank cassettes on the go that I would either record my CDs, friends' CDs, or songs from radio to bring with me on the go.
I remember buying my first stereo, which was the first CD-player in our house, but it also had to have a dual cassette deck so I could copy things, and also so I could hear things all fast and funny :lol:
I remember hearing awesome songs on the radio and never finding out who it was (one I recently found, and figured out why I could never find them even when I knew the name: they were a local band, I was listening to the college radio station, this was pre-internet, that band has since reformed :yesway: ).
I remember having tapes eaten, I remember having to hold my discman a certain way while walking so it wouldn't skip, hell, I remember listening to the radio on my walkman, back when rock radio played songs I liked on a regular basis (it's getting better around here, but still not what it once was), and we had two mainstream rock stations (before one went classic rock, and long before that same station became an "70s, 80s, 90s, and whatever!" station, which plays everything from Nirvana to Abba).
I remember discovering Napster and using it to find unreleased tracks, b-sides, rare songs, bootlegs, and for finding new bands I'd never heard of. I remember getting banned from Napster for downloading Metallica songs (my username's probably on that list Lars is holding in "Some Kind Of Monster" :lol: ) and finding a patch to get me back online.
These days, youtube and myspace (when it works) have taken over much of what I used to use downloading for. If I want to preview something, I stream it. If I like it enough to want to keep a copy around, I buy it.
I still listen to the radio sometimes, but I mainly listen to three things:
-the "acoustic brunch" on Sundays, lots of great stripped down acoustic versions of stuff from the 90s onwards.
-Alan Cross. Anything he does is awesome.
-George Stroumboulopoulos. See above.