Still Waiting

I have been a fan of Rock and Roll since the early 50's. I remember that when I lived in Mount Vernon I had a radio in my room and at night I could listen to Rock and Roll from Cleveland and Buffalo, two hotbeds of early RnR. When I started to earn money I began to buy records. i started with 45's and graduated to albums. At some point I probably had 5 or 600 albums. Then one day I heard about 8 track tapes. I am all in favor of new technology so I put an 8 track in my car and started buying 8 tracks recordings. Of course, I didn't only by new tapes, I also bought copies of many of the albums that I already owned. Then a couple of years later cassette players came out. These were smaller and more importantly you could advance them to the song that you wanted to hear. They gabe the listener much better control, so of course I started by cassettes and once again I started duplicating records and 8 tracks that I already owned. I had 3 of the same album and probably had 399 titles in triplicate. I felt really stupid buying the same thing over and over again, but if I wanted to listen to the music I liked there was no other choice. And then one day CD's came out. Hey, screw them, they are not going to get me to buy the fourth copy of something. I am smarter than that. I decided to wait for the next "newest, greatest way to listen to music".  That was probably 20 years ago and in that time I have probably bought less than 50 CDs. I am still waiting for the new technology.

P.S. My ex-wife, Bonnie, still has about 300 of my original collection of records and now claims that they are hers.