walkman woes
I feel like everything is currently falling apart right now, in terms of my portable music.
See, it was so good for so long. There's an obvious risk when you buy random guy's Walkmans (Walkmen?) off of eBay, because you don't know if they've taken care of them, these things are older than you, and then you work them to death because you want to be listening to tapes for like ten hours a day, right. So you go through quite a few of them, you know, but it's not 1985 anymore and they're not really all that expensive and especially now you have a ridiculous amount of disposable income--
But you get this one, and for months, for like five six months this thing works like a dream. You're listening to your tapes twenty-four-seven, you're having a great time. And so when it stops working there's no real hard feelings except that it's Friday and so even if you find one with Fast&Free shipping you won't get it until Tuesday, because you've had this one for a fucking while.
But then your next one breaks immediately. Like on your second tape. You get through Megadeth's "Youthanasia" and then start up your new Guns'n'Roses "Appetite for Destruction" tape and as soon as those last few notes of "Rocket Queen" finish out it just stops. And at least it let you finish your new Guns'n'Roses tape before quitting on you but like--
Really?
But then you go back and you have hoarded your past three of them, because you might be a baby hoarder, you just don't think about it, and surprise! One you bought last winter just needed to rest, because he's working just fine. For a day and a half. And then your next one--a couple of tapes in and it stops on some random KISS tape (which gets rid of your theory that it was Guns'n'Roses killing your cassette players, because your one that died over the weekend died on "Use Your Illusion I" and your new one died on "Appetite for Destruction" and your one you bought last winter didn't exactly die on "Appetite for Destruction" but it did play "Appetite for Destruction" before dying so--
So you've got another one coming, because you ran through all four of your now defunct cassette players, fresh batteries in each just in case, and none of them wanna go. Even "Master of Puppets", which will play in fucking anything, for some reason, won't go. And now you have to use your Discman until your new Walkman comes, which sucks because it skips and the volume is stuck on maximum volume and you don't have headphones with volume-control on them--
See, it was so good for so long. There's an obvious risk when you buy random guy's Walkmans (Walkmen?) off of eBay, because you don't know if they've taken care of them, these things are older than you, and then you work them to death because you want to be listening to tapes for like ten hours a day, right. So you go through quite a few of them, you know, but it's not 1985 anymore and they're not really all that expensive and especially now you have a ridiculous amount of disposable income--
But you get this one, and for months, for like five six months this thing works like a dream. You're listening to your tapes twenty-four-seven, you're having a great time. And so when it stops working there's no real hard feelings except that it's Friday and so even if you find one with Fast&Free shipping you won't get it until Tuesday, because you've had this one for a fucking while.
But then your next one breaks immediately. Like on your second tape. You get through Megadeth's "Youthanasia" and then start up your new Guns'n'Roses "Appetite for Destruction" tape and as soon as those last few notes of "Rocket Queen" finish out it just stops. And at least it let you finish your new Guns'n'Roses tape before quitting on you but like--
Really?
But then you go back and you have hoarded your past three of them, because you might be a baby hoarder, you just don't think about it, and surprise! One you bought last winter just needed to rest, because he's working just fine. For a day and a half. And then your next one--a couple of tapes in and it stops on some random KISS tape (which gets rid of your theory that it was Guns'n'Roses killing your cassette players, because your one that died over the weekend died on "Use Your Illusion I" and your new one died on "Appetite for Destruction" and your one you bought last winter didn't exactly die on "Appetite for Destruction" but it did play "Appetite for Destruction" before dying so--
So you've got another one coming, because you ran through all four of your now defunct cassette players, fresh batteries in each just in case, and none of them wanna go. Even "Master of Puppets", which will play in fucking anything, for some reason, won't go. And now you have to use your Discman until your new Walkman comes, which sucks because it skips and the volume is stuck on maximum volume and you don't have headphones with volume-control on them--
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