Since restarting our music collection we have been acquiring compact discs like nobodies business, to the point we had approaching 450 cds. Many of these have been acquired free. People just giving their collections away.
Now call me old fashioned, but if I paid money for an album and it was stored electronically somewhere that required a constant Internet connection to access it, I would be forever worried my collection could be rendered unaccessible by some foreign oik trying to extort money from an isp or hosting service by launching a ddos attack.
I have a streaming device but it accesses a hard drive that I have hooked to my Internet router. Call me old fashioned but some berk in a max power muppet mobile isn't going to ruin my enjoyment by wiping out the roadside cabinet I depend on for my Internet either.
Anyway we had 4 cd holders made of oak that matched. The wife saw two for sale that matched on Facebook marketplace and bought them. We turn up to pick them up, load them into the car and the seller says, "if you want you can have the cds for nothing...."
Well that's an offer we could not refuse. They loaded a huge box of over 200 cds into the car and we went home thinking there may be a few we like, seem the rest at auction, quids in.
Oh dear. Turns out we liked about 120 of the discs. Need two more matching cd holders....
Now call me old fashioned, but if I paid money for an album and it was stored electronically somewhere that required a constant Internet connection to access it, I would be forever worried my collection could be rendered unaccessible by some foreign oik trying to extort money from an isp or hosting service by launching a ddos attack.
I have a streaming device but it accesses a hard drive that I have hooked to my Internet router. Call me old fashioned but some berk in a max power muppet mobile isn't going to ruin my enjoyment by wiping out the roadside cabinet I depend on for my Internet either.
Anyway we had 4 cd holders made of oak that matched. The wife saw two for sale that matched on Facebook marketplace and bought them. We turn up to pick them up, load them into the car and the seller says, "if you want you can have the cds for nothing...."
Well that's an offer we could not refuse. They loaded a huge box of over 200 cds into the car and we went home thinking there may be a few we like, seem the rest at auction, quids in.
Oh dear. Turns out we liked about 120 of the discs. Need two more matching cd holders....