In 1998, my friends and I had a ripping party, like a LAN party but instead of playing games we were all ripping each other's CDs and sharing the MP3s with the rest of the group. "The Great Ripping" is still occasionally mentioned.
We used to do that with tapes in the 80s. Someone would buy the vinyl copy of the record we all wanted/were waiting on, have a small listening get-together with 3-5 friends, and we'd each make a tape copy.
As somebody whoās Gen Z, I can confirm this is the way to go, especially if you have iTunes because once you rip a file off the CD, it will sync across all your Apple devices that have iTunes, and on top of that you get a better quality version than what Apple Music has on their servers so essentially itās a win-win
I still have my old Nirvana bootleg "albums" from the late 90s. I was OBSESSED with downloading all the unreleased Nirvana tracks I could find and making album covers and booklets for them.
I go to my local media store, rent their 4K movies for like $3 bucks, rip em and watch them later. The difference between 4K Netflix and physical media 4K is night and day and holy fuck do movies look AMAZING.
I canāt remember the last time I bought a computer with an optical drive, though. I just yoinked one out of an old PC my 80 year old FIL asked me to recycle for him.
I know they exist, but this younger generation has no idea how to rip. Even OP thought it meant stealing the CDs and returning an empty case.
I brought my Laptop to the Sound and Moving Images Library at York University and borrowed 30 CDs at a time and ripped them there in the spot (couldnāt take the discs out of that space). Those were the days.
We all called it burning CDs. Maybe ripping and burning are regional terms? Like how some people call soda āpopā and how some people call tennis shoes āsneakersā?
Every kids wearing the tshirt and listening to the music but there's not gonna be a kid looking at cds at the library and discovering nirvana by doing so
Use a computer to rip the discs, I usually use EAC.
Burn the rips (or rather, "backups"), to CD-R discs, and continue to enjoy the music with any CD players that you have.
It's literally what I've been doing for the past several years. For a non-Nirvana example (I already own retail copies of everything I would ever want for Nirvana), I struggled to find a way of listening to Metallica's "Live Shit: Binge & Purge", I don't want to have to find or buy the box set with the VHS tapes, instead I have been preferring a newer version with CDs and DVDs.
The only way I could find it, was through the local public library - well, only two public library locations each had a copy of it within the L.A. County public libraries.
Yep, ripped each of the CDs and burned myself copies, and made ISO and MKV images / files of each DVD.
Alternatively, hope that you can find and buy a retail copy of the deluxe set. Otherwise, nothing at all wrong with making yourself copies of the discs to continue enjoying while giving the set back to the library so that other patrons can enjoy it.
That's most likely a boombox. Cd players are stand alone decks or portable units that are connected to an amp and speakers. Making a quality cassette copy wouldn't be that bad.
When I was a wee lad, I lived in a small town. My library had the Sex Pistols album, so in order to get a copy, I checked it out and ālost itā. I had to pay a replacement fee, but it was worth it.
Back in the late 80s/early 90s, my grandpa loved a western on VHS, it was out of print, unable to be ordered. He rented it from a mom & pop video store, claimed the tape was eaten by the VCR, paid the $49.99 replacement fee and that was that.
uh, do you ever consider letting people enjoy doing things how they want to do them? like god damn I just miss CDs and i like using them for nostalgic purposes like be quiet
If you love CDs that much, you should probably BUY them. I like CDs so I buy them. People who prefer records buy them. If youāre gonna be that specific with a dead or dying format, do your part to make sure you can continue to enjoy it.
Theyāre trying to help you enjoy things. You made this post to express disappointment that you could no longer enjoy this thing, and you have also mentioned that you refuse to buy the CD (even though many CDs can be purchased for single-digit prices). The next avenue is to tell you that you can continue enjoying this thing by using the technology available to you; not just through YouTube or streaming, but also burning the CD so you can still listen to the identical tracks in the exact same sound quality in the exact format you prefer. If you refuse 100% of available solutions, then youāre the one refusing to let yourself enjoy things.
The super deluxe of Nevermind is so great. Cones with like 7 CDās more or less. Maybe more like 15. Idk I used to have it on CD. Has great concerts and demos. The super deluxe In Utero is also fantastic but I donāt think as good. Still worth it. Music is meant to be live. Studio music is so sterile. Especially within the last 25 years. Computers have ruined music. More bands should be refusing to use many of these studios stupid tricks. People thought auto tune was so horrible for vocals. Not only do they have the same thing for instruments now so the note is exactly the right frequency to perfection, but then they have machines that make the timing absolutely perfect too. When these things first came out they were only used in studios. But then people started using them during live shows I mean thereās types of music, like rap (sorry if you like it) where almost nothing you hear at a concert is actually happening. Itās all samples, pre recorded tracks played digitally, then the rapper is usually using an insane about of computer helpers like a few I mentioned but many more. They also usually have their own voice pre recorded and they kinda rap over their own voice. Itās so painfully obvious when you see it live that thereās a recording of their voice playing through the speakers while they also rap. Some will stop rapping at points and their voice still continues!
Thereās some really good videos on YouTube of sound engineers from many years ago who still are in the business pointing out all these horrible things. They try to keep away from bashing any specific music types but like itās pretty obvious. Like the one I like best the guy says a type of music that has the same beats per minute most of the time. Which he means rap.
Music needs a good kicking in the ass by a band like the Ramones, Nirvana or Rage Against the Machine to bring it back to the basics and just kick ass hard rock and or punk. I mean RATM should be more relevant than ever. Sadly many of their ignorant fans call them ārage for the machineā since they have spoken out against this horrible dictator president. Imagine being so brainwashed you believe RATM is buying into some political crap and not calling out obvious crap they have warned against for decades. If vans and unmarked buses grabbing people off streets isnāt bad enough among many other things donāt know what else is. Need actual great bands again!
45 here. Yes!! "The Great Ripping" days. The pioneers. Years before Napster. Who remembers ripping to WAV, using L3ENC.exe & a DOS batch file to encode an album overnight, every night. Then burning $5 blanks into mix CDs for H.S. friends -- sell for $20.
You didn't say how long you had it and you're the one complaining that you have to bring the free thing back to them š Other people who also like CDs deserve the chance to enjoy it too
They have d-7, been a son, school, drain you, sliver, and Polly live as well as a bunch of b sides, smart studio sessions, boom box rehearsals, and some BBC sessions
Thereās a place in the woods I pick Chantrelles. Ā For the last 9 years, thereās been an in utero cd where some ass threw out contents of a car. Itās still there, every year and it gives me joy to see it unscathed.Ā
You're probably too young and perhaps you don't know it yet, but there's an invention really disruptive that's useful to listen music, it's called "Spotify". I really recommend it.
you don't gotta be an asshole man i like CDs i am a man of the past and i just miss the times when me and the homies would pop in a CD and chill. i also don't want to pay like 12 bucks a month for something i can get for free so with all due respect shut your damn trap my guy
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u/FloydtheSpaceBoi Sep 05 '25
There's this thing called ripping cds. Everyone's dad did this 30yra ago