Dear Prudence: Will you come out to play tomorrow's music?

Tuesday, December 11, 2018

Being an audiophile is one of my life's great joys. But I never thought my love for music would lead me to an evening of maudlin rumination on the passage of time.

Yet here we are. I blame John Lennon.

I've been a music junkie my entire life. It may have started before my life even technically began; my mom's convinced she fostered my audiophilia by putting headphones on her womb while I was a captive audience.

I don't know if it was the prenatal catalyst for a lifetime of music geekery, but I guarantee fetal Shane was grateful for the wall of amniotic fluid separating me from the greatest hits of Barbra Streisand.

As a music nerd, I'm obligated to stay on top of the newest trends in audio tech.

Vinyl albums begat 8-tracks which begat cassettes which begat CDs and now we're back around to snobby purists swearing that vinyl's always been the best. Transistor radios gave way to Walkmen, Discmen, iPods, and now our crazy world where I just walk around my living room and say, "Alexa, play [any song that's ever been recorded in the history of time ever]" and it magically DOES.

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