Last year Cheap Trick released their album, The Latest, on CD, Vinyl and 8-track. It was the biggest selling 8-tack of the year (if that is something to get excited about.) It got me thinking, growing up we used to look through my parents’ record collection with both awe and wonder. We were amazed that they actually had decent taste in music as was evidenced by their Beatles’ Rubber Soul LP, and we were stunned that people could actually listen to music on these plastic discs with grooves. It always sounded scratchy and the needle never landed exactly where it was supposed to. We thought our cassettes were so much better and then with the arrival of compact discs we could not believe that we ever listened to music that was not digital.
Now as I raise my own kids, I’m struck by the enormous leaps in technology and how my children do not know anything before an mp3. My five-year-old son gets upset when he watches a TV set that is not hooked up to a DVR because he is unable to pause live TV. In my lifetime I have seen music move from vinyl to cassettes to CDs to mp3s. My kids started on mp3 tracks and I wonder where they will go fr
